Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fredonia, New York
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Fredonia — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Fredonia, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Fredonia itself.
The rest sit in Town of Dunkirk (9), Village of Fredonia (3), City of Dunkirk (1), Town of Sheridan (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Fredonia
The readers mapped around Fredonia break down as 8 of unrecorded make, 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2023; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- New York State Thruway — 8 readers
- Main Street — 1 reader
- Central Avenue — 1 reader
- Christy Road — 1 reader
- Bennett Road — 1 reader
- Temple Street — 1 reader
Fredonia in the Chautauqua County picture
Chautauqua County has 12 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,789 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 126,329 residents and 2,360 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 59.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 13 traffic.
What’s watching Fredonia
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 Fredonia — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fredonia (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Fredonia
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 Fredonia
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).