Flock & ALPR Cameras in Auburn, New York
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Auburn — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Auburn is on the record here. Auburn City Council voted unanimously Aug. 20, 2026 to terminate a four-year, about $120,000 Flock contract. WRVO and FingerLakes1 reported the resolution requires a 30-day written notice, after which city departments must stop using the cameras and databases. Council also directed staff to write an ALPR policy before any future contract. FingerLakes1 reported the roll call as 5–0.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Auburn, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Auburn itself.
The rest sit in City of Auburn (9), Town of Sennett (2).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (3). 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 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Auburn
The readers mapped around Auburn break down as 10 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Grant Avenue — 3 readers
- John Wash Boulevard — 1 reader
- Bradford Street — 1 reader
- Clark Street Road — 1 reader
- Franklin Street Road — 1 reader
- US 20;NY 5 — 1 reader
- East Genesee Street — 1 reader
- State Street — 1 reader
Auburn NY PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Auburn NY PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 80 other agencies.
Auburn in the Cayuga County picture
Cayuga County has 22 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,045 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 75,464 residents and 1,632 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 37.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (3).
What’s watching Auburn
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 Auburn — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Auburn (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Auburn
- Auburn, NY: Contract Canceled
- On the agenda: Auburn meeting — surveillance camera (Feb 11)
- New York bans facial recognition technology in schools
What you can do in Auburn
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 Auburn
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).