Flock & ALPR Cameras in Grand Island, New York
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Grand Island — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Grand Island, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Grand Island itself.
The rest sit in Town of Grand Island (7), City of Niagara Falls (5), City of North Tonawanda (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Niagara Falls Police Department (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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No new reports near Grand Island in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 11:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Grand Island
The readers mapped around Grand Island break down as 9 Flock Safety, 4 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Niagara Falls Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Whitehaven Road — 4 readers
- Buffalo Avenue — 2 readers
- Grand Island Boulevard — 1 reader
- Baseline Road — 1 reader
- 63rd Street — 1 reader
- Krull Parkway — 1 reader
- Long Road — 1 reader
- Military Road — 1 reader
- Shoreline Trail — 1 reader
Grand Island in the Erie County picture
Erie County has 291 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,002 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 950,044 residents and 3,136 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: Niagara Falls Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Grand Island, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Grand Island. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.
What’s watching Grand Island
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 Grand Island — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Grand Island (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Grand Island
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 Grand Island
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).