Flock & ALPR Cameras in Crown Heights, New York
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Crown Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Crown Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Crown Heights itself.
The rest sit in Town of Poughkeepsie (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Crown Heights
The readers mapped around Crown Heights break down as 11 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- South Road — 7 readers
- Cottam Hill Road — 2 readers
- Strawberry Hill Road — 1 reader
- Old Post Road — 1 reader
Crown Heights in the Dutchess County picture
Dutchess County has 116 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #756 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 297,144 residents and 2,611 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 13.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Crown Heights, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Crown Heights. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Crown Heights
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 Crown Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Crown Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Crown Heights
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 Crown Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).