Flock & ALPR Cameras in Amherst, New York
Volunteers have reported 31 automated license plate readers in and around Amherst — 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 Amherst, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Amherst itself.
The rest sit in Eggertsville (23), Town of Amherst (6), Town of Tonawanda (2).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (1), Tonawanda Police Department (1), Town of Amherst (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Amherst
The readers mapped around Amherst break down as 14 Flock Safety, 6 Neology, Inc., 5 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Tonawanda Police Department, Lowe's, Town of Amherst. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Willow Wood Pkwy North — 8 readers
- Smallwood Drive — 6 readers
- Ridge Lea Road — 3 readers
- Sweet Home Road — 2 readers
- Niagara Falls Boulevard — 2 readers
- John James Audubon Parkway — 2 readers
- Millersport Highway — 2 readers
- Willow Wood Pkwy South — 2 readers
- Brighton Road — 1 reader
- Cranburne Lane — 1 reader
- Alcona Avenue — 1 reader
Amherst NY PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Amherst NY PD runs 17 cameras of its own, has logged 291 plate-database searches, has captured 483,998 vehicle records. Its network connects to 112 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Albany City NY PD, Albany County NY SO, Auburn NY PD, Baldwinsville Central School District Inc NY, Batavia NY PD, Beacon City NY PD, Binghamton City NY PD, Brookville NY PD.
Amherst in the Erie County picture
Erie County has 291 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,002 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 950,044 residents and 3,136 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 30 traffic. Operators named on the record: Tonawanda Police Department (1), Lowe's (1), Town of Amherst (1).
Camera activity around Amherst, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Amherst. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.
What’s watching Amherst
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 Amherst — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Amherst (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Amherst
What you can do in Amherst
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 Amherst
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).