Flock & ALPR Cameras in Green Island, New York
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Green 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 Green Island, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Green Island itself.
The rest sit in City of Troy (10), Village of Green Island (2), Town of Colonie (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Green Island in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:16 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Green Island
The readers mapped around Green Island break down as 11 Flock Safety, 2 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- I 787;NY 7 — 2 readers
- Jay Street — 1 reader
- 25th Street — 1 reader
- Hoosick Street — 1 reader
- Starbuck Drive — 1 reader
- River View Drive — 1 reader
- River Street — 1 reader
- George Street — 1 reader
- 8th Street — 1 reader
- 9th Street — 1 reader
- 6th Avenue — 1 reader
- Hutton Street — 1 reader
Green Island NY PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Green Island NY PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 9 other agencies.
Green Island in the Albany County picture
Albany County has 117 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #817 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 315,374 residents and 1,724 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
Camera activity around Green Island, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Green Island. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching Green 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 Green Island — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Green Island (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Green Island
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Green Island, NY
- Another Greenport License Plate Reader Vandalized
What you can do in Green 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 Green Island
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).