Flock Cameras in Akron, OH: Locations, Map & Count

The operator table is headed by Akron Police Department at 149 cameras (14%), then Stark County Sheriff's Office at 53. Beyond the top of the table it is a long tail: 74 separate operators in all, ranking Akron 24th of 251 on operator count.

Not every reader here belongs to a public body. The Home Depot (14) appears among the largest operators, and 22 of the cameras carrying an operator type are recorded as private.

For the thing that actually matters when routing, Akron is well documented: 963 of its 1,082 mapped cameras — 89% — record which way they face, ranking 152nd of 251 on bearing coverage.

Public records cover 11 agencies around Akron in the EFF Atlas of Surveillance against 74 operators on the map — the difference between a records project and a mapping project, not a contradiction.

Sheriff's offices are prominent: Stark County Sheriff's Office and Summit County Sheriff's Office sit in the top twelve, alongside municipal forces such as Independence Police Department, Parma Police Department, Solon Police Department.

Read from the live map on 1 November 2026. Since 13 October 2026 the 10-mile count moved from 337 to 338 (+1) and the metro-box count moved from 1,062 to 1,082 (+20). The underlying records are OpenStreetMap entries plus community submissions — nobody who operates a camera is obliged to declare it, so these are the documented minimum rather than the full picture. The metro is a box roughly 50 miles across centred on Akron.

Akron ranks 50th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Covington, KY and Charlotte, NC, and 24th by operator count.

Upper third on size; 152nd of 251 on bearing coverage at 89%, and 191st on lead-operator share at 14%.

Ranked against the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks, every one read from the live map on 1 November 2026. Metro areas are drawn as a box around the city centre, so neighbouring metros can share cameras and these counts must never be added together.

These are the 20 largest of 74 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (764 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 258 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 223 of 1,082 mapped cameras name no manufacturer at all, which makes the actual distribution broader than shown. These count cameras on the map, not purchase orders.

Look for a slim grey or black box the size of a shoebox on its own pole, usually paired with a small solar panel, at intersections and on the approaches to shopping centres. Recorded mounts around Akron:

One camera covers one approach, so its heading is what decides which journeys end up recorded. Around Akron the mapped bearings distribute like this:

Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 115 mapped cameras have no recorded bearing, and 4 are tagged as omnidirectional.

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.

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