Flock & ALPR Cameras in East Ithaca, New York
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around East Ithaca — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of East Ithaca, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside East Ithaca itself.
The rest sit in City of Ithaca (2), Brooktondale (1), Town of Ithaca (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Tompkins County Sheriff (1). 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 East Ithaca in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 08:01 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in East Ithaca
The readers mapped around East Ithaca break down as 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Tompkins County Sheriff. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Nov 2025.
- Hoy Road — 1 reader
- Pine Tree Road — 1 reader
- Hollister Drive — 1 reader
- Brooktondale Road — 1 reader
East Ithaca in the Tompkins County picture
Tompkins County has 69 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #283 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 13.2% nationally. That’s across 102,879 residents and 1,013 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Tompkins County Sheriff (1).
What’s watching East Ithaca
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 East Ithaca — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to East Ithaca (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around East Ithaca
What you can do in East Ithaca
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.
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Cameras near East Ithaca
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).