Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed
Cleveland Heights is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.
Our records document automated license plate reader use in Cleveland Heights, Ohio recorded for Cleveland Heights Police Department, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 36 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 33 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
Agency
Cleveland Heights Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Cuyahoga County
State
Ohio (OH)
Vendor
Selex
The Cuyahoga County Sheriff operates a network of 80 automated license plate readers throughout Northeastern Ohio in partnership with 20 local law enforcement agencies, including the Cleveland Heights Police Department.
Sources · record AOS000169
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.
36 mapped camera points inside the Cleveland Heights 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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