Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hamburg, New York
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Hamburg — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hamburg, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Hamburg itself.
The rest sit in Town of Hamburg (4), Village of Hamburg (2), Town of Eden (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Hamburg
The readers mapped around Hamburg break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Camp Road — 2 readers
- East Church Street — 1 reader
- Buffalo Street — 1 reader
- Southwestern Boulevard — 1 reader
Hamburg NY PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hamburg NY PD runs 7 cameras of its own, has logged 380 plate-database searches, has captured 273,177 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,576 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Abington MA PD, Abington Township PA PD, Acushnet MA PD, Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO, Adams County IN SO.
Hamburg 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 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Hamburg, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Hamburg. Latest change logged Aug 14, 2026.
What’s watching Hamburg
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 Hamburg — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hamburg (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hamburg
What you can do in Hamburg
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 Hamburg
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).