Flock & ALPR Cameras in Dunkirk, New York
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Dunkirk — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Dunkirk, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Dunkirk itself.
The rest sit in City of Dunkirk (5), Town of Dunkirk (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Dunkirk
The readers mapped around Dunkirk break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2026; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Ounce Street — 1 reader
- Williams Street East — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
Dunkirk in the Chautauqua County picture
Chautauqua County has 12 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,789 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 126,329 residents and 2,360 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 59.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
What’s watching Dunkirk
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 Dunkirk — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Dunkirk (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Dunkirk
What you can do in Dunkirk
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 Dunkirk
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).