Flock & ALPR Cameras in Forest Hills, New York
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Forest Hills — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Forest Hills, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Forest Hills itself.
The rest sit in New York (12).
11 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (8), NYC D.O.T (1), New York City Police Department (1), The Home Depot (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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- Sep 25 Ekin Box Spotter camera newly reported
- Sep 25 Ekin Box Spotter camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Forest Hills
The readers mapped around Forest Hills break down as 6 Ekin Box Spotter, 2 Mav (IQ:350XR), 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation, NYC D.O.T, New York City Police Department, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Woodhaven Boulevard — 3 readers
- Metropolitan Avenue — 3 readers
- Union Turnpike — 2 readers
- New York — 1 reader
- Cooper Avenue — 1 reader
Forest Hills in the Queens County picture
Queens County has 307 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,621 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 2,330,124 residents and 737 road miles. By road density that is 0.42 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (7), NYC D.O.T (1), New York City Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Forest Hills, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Forest Hills. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.
What’s watching Forest Hills
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 Forest Hills — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Forest Hills (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Forest Hills
What you can do in Forest Hills
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 Forest Hills
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).