Flock & ALPR Cameras in Elmira, New York
Volunteers have reported 35 automated license plate readers in and around Elmira — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 35 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Elmira, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Elmira itself.
The rest sit in City of Elmira (34), Town of Southport (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Elmira in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:30 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Elmira
The readers mapped around Elmira break down as 35 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Maple Avenue — 2 readers
- Walnut Street — 2 readers
- North Main Street — 2 readers
- East Church Street — 2 readers
- South Main Street — 2 readers
- East Water Street — 2 readers
- West Washington Avenue — 2 readers
- South Avenue — 2 readers
- Mount Zoar Street — 2 readers
- Park Place — 1 reader
- East 2nd Street — 1 reader
- Lackawanna Avenue — 1 reader
+ 14 more streets and roads mapped around Elmira — all on the live map above.
Elmira NY PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Elmira NY PD runs 35 cameras of its own, has logged 102 plate-database searches, has captured 129,930 vehicle records.
Elmira in the Chemung County picture
Chemung County has 47 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #413 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 19.3% nationally. That’s across 82,805 residents and 964 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic.
Camera activity around Elmira, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Elmira. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching Elmira
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 Elmira — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Elmira (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Elmira
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Elmira, NY
- On the agenda: Elmira Corrections and Law Enforcement Committee — license plate reader (Jul 27)
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Elmira, NY
- City of Elmira installs Flock Safety cameras
What you can do in Elmira
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 Elmira
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).