Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cheektowaga, New York
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Cheektowaga — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cheektowaga, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Cheektowaga itself.
The rest sit in Town of Cheektowaga (21).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Walden Galeria (4). 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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No new reports near Cheektowaga in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Cheektowaga
The readers mapped around Cheektowaga break down as 19 Flock Safety, 1 Axis Communications, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Walden Galeria. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Union Road — 3 readers
- Galleria Drive — 3 readers
- French Road — 2 readers
- Luiz F. Kahl Way — 2 readers
- Walden Avenue — 1 reader
- William Street — 1 reader
- Walden Galleria Drive — 1 reader
- East Drive — 1 reader
- Town of Cheektowaga — 1 reader
- Midway East — 1 reader
- Midway Drive — 1 reader
- West Drive — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Cheektowaga — all on the live map above.
Cheektowaga NY PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cheektowaga NY PD runs 32 cameras of its own, has logged 744 plate-database searches, has captured 467,061 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,600 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Abington MA PD, Abington Township PA PD, Acushnet MA PD, Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO, Adams County IN SO.
Cheektowaga 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 12 traffic, 1 police. Operators named on the record: Walden Galeria (4).
Camera activity around Cheektowaga, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Cheektowaga. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Cheektowaga
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 Cheektowaga — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cheektowaga (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cheektowaga
- Flock cameras face calls for new rules after Cheektowaga police investigation
- Law enforcement executives discuss Flock camera access for police officers following Cheektowaga alleged misuse case
- 3 Cheektowaga Police dispatchers suspended for Flock camera misuse
- Cheektowaga Police Suspended Over License Plate Camera Misuse
What you can do in Cheektowaga
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 Cheektowaga
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).