Flock & ALPR Cameras in Elma Center, New York
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Elma Center — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Elma Center, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Elma Center itself.
The rest sit in Town of West Seneca (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Elma Center in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:11 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Elma Center
The readers mapped around Elma Center break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Feb 2026.
- Seneca Street — 1 reader
Elma Center in the Erie County picture
Erie County has 291 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,002 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 950,044 residents and 3,136 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Elma Center
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 Elma Center — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Elma Center (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Elma Center
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 Elma Center
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).