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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Balmville, New York

Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Balmville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Balmville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Balmville itself.

The rest sit in Middle Hope (2).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Live camera map 12 reported cameras around Balmville, New York
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Balmville

No new reports near Balmville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Balmville

The readers mapped around Balmville break down as 12 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.

  • Route 9W — 5 readers
  • North Plank Road — 3 readers
  • Hudson Valley Professional Plaza — 1 reader
  • Grand Avenue — 1 reader
  • Balmville Road — 1 reader
  • Chestnut Lane — 1 reader

Balmville in the Orange County picture

Orange County has 182 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #622 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 403,840 residents and 2,868 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.4% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.

What’s watching Balmville

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 Balmville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Balmville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Balmville

What you can do in Balmville

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.

Cameras near Balmville

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).