A Closer Look at Dublin’s Flock Cameras

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When a family in our community gets a serious diagnosis — usually cancer — the immediate crisis gets attention. What's harder to see is everything else that keeps falling apart. Dinners that don't get made. Lawns that don't get mowed. Laundry that piles up. Holidays that feel impossible to pull off. Kids whose birthdays still need to happen even when everything is hard.

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Three years in, they're supporting 45 families — their biggest number yet. They have clubs in all three Dublin high schools. And their biggest fundraiser of the year is coming up at Swan Lake in Powell.

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You’ve probably noticed those Flock cameras popping up around Dublin. They’ve become a much bigger conversation around the country lately, so I figured it was worth looking into how ours actually work.

Dublin Police have 25 of these cameras around town. Every car that drives by gets checked in real time against “hotlists”—things like stolen vehicles, missing people, or wanted suspects. If there’s a match, an officer gets an alert and decides whether it’s actually the same vehicle. That happened about 2,300 times in the last month.

Police can also go back later and search the camera data while investigating a crime. They did that 164 times over the same period. And just to clear up a common misconception: these cameras aren’t used for speeding tickets—that’s a different system.

Here’s the part I didn’t realize until I started digging: the system logs every vehicle, not just the ones connected to a crime. It stores your license plate, make, model, color, and even identifying details like bumper stickers for up to 30 days.

Dublin’s policy says that data can’t be sold, can’t be used for immigration enforcement, and can’t be used to target people based on things like race or religion. Those are all written into the department’s policy.

What’s interesting is that Ohio doesn’t actually have a state law requiring those protections. They’re department policies, not legal requirements.

That distinction has mattered in other places. In Mountain View, California, an audit found that roughly 250 outside agencies—many without formal agreements—had run around 600,000 searches of the city’s camera data before anyone realized it. And nationally, the Institute for Justice has documented more than 20 cases where officers used similar systems to track people they had a personal interest in rather than actual suspects.

None of that means Dublin is doing anything wrong. It just raises an interesting question: once everyone’s movements are being logged, what kind of oversight should exist for who gets to search that data and why?

I don’t really have a conclusion here. I just think it’s worth knowing that your car is probably in a database somewhere, even on a random Tuesday.

Curious where you land on it.

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