Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed
Bowling Green is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.
Our records document automated license plate reader use in Bowling Green, Ohio recorded for Bowling Green State University Parking and Shuttle Services, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 24 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 5 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
Agency
Bowling Green State University Parking and Shuttle Services
Agency type
Parking Enforcement
Jurisdiction
University
County
Wood County
State
Ohio (OH)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
Bowling Green State University Parking and Shuttle Services began using license plate readers for parking enforcement in 2017.
Sources · record AOS007835
These entries document that an agency has been reported to use ALPR technology. They do not establish camera counts, exact locations, cost, retention periods or sharing policies unless the linked source says so.
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Everything on this page traces back to the records below. Where a record carries no linked document, we say so instead of filling the gap.
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
24 mapped camera points inside the Bowling Green boundary, from OpenStreetMap contributors via the DeFlock ↗ dataset (ODbL). Each point links to its own OpenStreetMap record in the camera list on this page.
Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.
Other Ohio communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
WOSU reports that two central Ohio school districts, Worthington City Schools and Olentangy Local Schools, cancelled their Flock Safety contracts.
WOSU Public MediaSep 1, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
The Upper Arlington Police Division published a Flock transparency portal listing its ALPR policies, usage statistics and privacy safeguards, per the city's own announcement.
City of Upper ArlingtonJul 30, 2026Official / governmentFlock Safety
The Dispatch reported that federal immigration authorities had a path to Columbus police Flock data until sharing settings were changed earlier in the year.
The Columbus DispatchJul 17, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther paused Flock data sharing after an audit identified immigration-related searches, according to the Dispatch.
The Columbus DispatchJul 10, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
Camera counts, contract prices, retention and sharing policies are shown only where we found a primary source. Where they're missing, the information is not publicly verified — see the Flock Files for the documents we do have.
Data attribution
Portions of the surveillance deployment data on this site come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org ↗ Are You Flocked? is independent and is not affiliated with the EFF or Flock Safety. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
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