Flock & ALPR Cameras in Colonie, New York
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Colonie — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Colonie, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Colonie itself.
The rest sit in Village of Colonie (5), Town of Colonie (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Colonie
The readers mapped around Colonie break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- Northway Mall Road — 2 readers
- Central Avenue — 2 readers
- Albany Shaker Road — 2 readers
- Colonie Center — 1 reader
- Wolf Road — 1 reader
Colonie NY PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Colonie NY PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 11 other agencies.
Colonie 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 7 traffic.
What’s watching Colonie
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 Colonie — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Colonie (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Colonie
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 Colonie
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).