Flock & ALPR Cameras in Commack, New York
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Commack — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Commack, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Commack itself.
The rest sit in Town of Smithtown (5).
5 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (5). 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 Commack 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 Commack
The readers mapped around Commack break down as 10 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Jericho Turnpike — 4 readers
- Indian Head Road — 3 readers
- Larkfield Road — 2 readers
- Crooked Hill Commons — 2 readers
- Commack Road — 1 reader
Commack in the Suffolk County picture
Suffolk County has 209 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,608 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,525,680 residents and 7,077 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (5).
Camera activity around Commack, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Commack. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.
What’s watching Commack
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 Commack — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Commack (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Commack
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 Commack
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).