Flock & ALPR Cameras in Far Rockaway, New York
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Far Rockaway — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Far Rockaway, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Far Rockaway itself.
The rest sit in New York (3).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Far Rockaway
The readers mapped around Far Rockaway break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jul 2026.
- Plainview Avenue — 1 reader
Far Rockaway in the Nassau County picture
Nassau County has 331 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,226 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,388,138 residents and 3,157 road miles. By road density that is 0.10 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Far Rockaway
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 Far Rockaway — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Far Rockaway (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Far Rockaway
What you can do in Far Rockaway
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 Far Rockaway
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).