Flock & ALPR Cameras in Canton, New York
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Canton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Canton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Canton itself.
The rest sit in Village of Canton (4), Town of Russell (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Canton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:20 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Canton
The readers mapped around Canton break down as 2 of unrecorded make, 2 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in May 2026.
- Gouverneur Street — 2 readers
- Cornell Drive — 1 reader
- County Road 24 — 1 reader
- US 11 — 1 reader
Canton in the St. Lawrence County picture
St. Lawrence County has 24 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,296 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 107,796 residents and 3,683 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 54.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Canton, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for Canton. Latest change logged Aug 26, 2026.
What’s watching Canton
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 Canton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Canton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Canton
What you can do in Canton
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.
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Cameras near Canton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).