Flock & ALPR Cameras in Albany, New York
Volunteers have reported 30 automated license plate readers in and around Albany — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 31 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Albany, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Albany itself.
The rest sit in City of Albany (31).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Albany
The readers mapped around Albany break down as 23 Flock Safety, 7 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Henry Johnson Boulevard — 2 readers
- New Scotland Avenue — 2 readers
- Washington Park Road — 2 readers
- Madison Avenue — 2 readers
- State Street — 2 readers
- Slingerland Street — 1 reader
- Sheridan Avenue — 1 reader
- North Pearl Street — 1 reader
- Livingston Avenue — 1 reader
- 3rd Street — 1 reader
- Hackett Boulevard — 1 reader
- Holland Avenue — 1 reader
+ 13 more streets and roads mapped around Albany — all on the live map above.
Albany in the Albany County picture
Albany County has 117 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #817 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 315,374 residents and 1,724 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 28 traffic.
What’s watching Albany
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Albany — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Albany (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Albany
- Flock camera placed on Kinderhook farm property cut down overnight
- 3 new license plate readers reported around West Albany, NY
- Schenectady police install 14 new Axon license plate readers amid misuse concerns
- VIDEO: Two Flock cameras explode on Radium Springs Rd. in Albany
What you can do in Albany
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Albany
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).