Flock & ALPR Cameras in Flatlands, New York
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Flatlands — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 28 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Flatlands, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Flatlands itself.
The rest sit in New York (28).
16 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (16). 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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- Oct 7 Pelco camera newly reported
- Oct 7 Pelco camera newly reported
- Oct 7 Verra Mobility camera newly reported
- Oct 7 Verra Mobility camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 6 new license plate readers just reported around Flatlands, NY. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Flatlands
Where the cameras are in Flatlands
The readers mapped around Flatlands break down as 15 Ekin Box Spotter, 1 Mav (IQ:350XR), 1 Ekin x spotter. Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Kings Highway — 6 readers
- Bedford Avenue — 2 readers
- Flatlands Avenue — 1 reader
- Avenue U — 1 reader
- Avenue H — 1 reader
- Avenue M — 1 reader
- Flatbush Avenue — 1 reader
- Avenue J — 1 reader
- Avenue I — 1 reader
- Nostrand Avenue — 1 reader
- Utica Avenue — 1 reader
Flatlands in the Kings County picture
Kings County has 273 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,753 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 2,646,306 residents and 209 road miles. By road density that is 1.31 cameras per road mile, in the top 0% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (16).
What’s watching Flatlands
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 Flatlands — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Flatlands (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Flatlands
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Flatlands, NY
- 5 new license plate readers reported around Flatlands, NY
What you can do in Flatlands
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 Flatlands
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).