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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Herkimer, New York

Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Herkimer — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Herkimer, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Herkimer itself.

The rest sit in Village of Herkimer (7), Town of Herkimer (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
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of 701 New York cities tracked
0.2%
of New York’s reported cameras
Live camera map 8 reported cameras around Herkimer, New York
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Camera Watch Recently reported near Herkimer

No new reports near Herkimer in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Herkimer

The readers mapped around Herkimer break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.

  • East Herkimer — 1 reader
  • East Albany Street — 1 reader
  • South Washington Street — 1 reader
  • Marginal Road — 1 reader
  • State Route 5 — 1 reader
  • Reservoir Road — 1 reader
  • Lou Ambers Drive — 1 reader
  • Middleville Road — 1 reader

Herkimer in the Herkimer County picture

Herkimer County has 7 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,684 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 59,932 residents and 2,003 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 69.2% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.

What’s watching Herkimer

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 Herkimer — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Herkimer (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Herkimer

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.

Cameras near Herkimer

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).