Flock & ALPR cameras in Ohio

Two things stand out in Ohio. First, the operator list is long — 472 separate bodies — so the lead agency, Columbus Division of Police, holds only 4% of the total. Second, the count here is a true in-state figure: every camera was tested against the state polygon, not just a box drawn around a city. 1,359 of the 7,012 cameras carry no operator at all, so the operator shares above are shares of the attributed cameras.

Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Akron, Dayton and Toledo have full pages with operator, vendor and direction breakdowns; the other metros are covered by the live map. These are bounding-box reads around each city, useful for comparing metros but not for adding together — boxes overlap and spill across state lines. The headline figure is counted inside the border and is the honest state total.

472 separate bodies operate mapped readers in Ohio. Columbus Division of Police leads with 260; Akron Police Department runs 151. Of the cameras carrying a recorded operator type, 3,525 are municipal police, 1,407 are sheriff's offices and 83 are private.

Attribution is inferred from jurisdiction for 4,949 cameras and recorded directly for the rest. Counts are a floor: cameras appear on the map as people map them.

Vendor tags exist for 6,332 of Ohio's cameras, and Flock Safety takes 97% of those — but Axis Communications runs 57, which is why the map reads 'ALPR', not just 'Flock'.

Where a mount is recorded, Ohio's cameras sit on: pole (1,195), post (214), street lamp (140), wall (3). 6,335 of the 7,012 cameras have a recorded facing direction, which is what makes route avoidance possible — a camera with no bearing shows on the map but can't be avoided with any precision.

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