Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cohoes, New York
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Cohoes — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cohoes, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Cohoes itself.
The rest sit in City of Cohoes (6), City of Troy (2), Town of Colonie (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Cohoes in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 03:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Cohoes
The readers mapped around Cohoes break down as 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Columbia Street — 2 readers
- North Mohawk Street — 2 readers
- Manor Avenue — 2 readers
- 112th Street — 2 readers
- Saint Agnes Highway — 1 reader
- Columbia Street Extension — 1 reader
Cohoes NY PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cohoes NY PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 17 other agencies.
Cohoes in the Albany County picture
Albany County has 117 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #817 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 315,374 residents and 1,724 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic.
What’s watching Cohoes
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 Cohoes — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cohoes (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cohoes
What you can do in Cohoes
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 Cohoes
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).