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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Canandaigua, New York

Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Canandaigua — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Canandaigua, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Canandaigua itself.

The rest sit in Town of Canandaigua (4), City of Canandaigua (1), Town of Hopewell (1).

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

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6
Reported cameras nearby
#248
of 701 New York cities tracked
0.1%
of New York’s reported cameras
The local record — what was proposed here

Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.

Live camera map 6 reported cameras around Canandaigua, 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 Canandaigua

No new reports near Canandaigua in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Canandaigua

The readers mapped around Canandaigua break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • Lakeshore Drive — 1 reader
  • Recreation Drive — 1 reader
  • Chapel Street — 1 reader
  • Airport Road — 1 reader
  • Airline Road — 1 reader
  • Macedon Road — 1 reader

Canandaigua in the Ontario County picture

Ontario County has 24 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,334 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 112,405 residents and 1,243 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 29.7% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.

Camera activity around Canandaigua, last 30 days

4 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Canandaigua. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.

What’s watching Canandaigua

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

The latest around Canandaigua

What you can do in Canandaigua

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 Canandaigua

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