Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ithaca, New York
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Ithaca — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Ithaca is on the record here. Ithica Common Council ended the city’s contract with Flock Safety due to privacy concerns.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Ithaca is on the record here. Ithaca's Common Council voted to end the city's contract with Flock Safety.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ithaca, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Ithaca itself.
The rest sit in City of Ithaca (4).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (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 Ithaca in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 07:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Ithaca
The readers mapped around Ithaca break down as 3 Flock Safety, 1 LVT. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Jan 2026.
- City of Ithaca — 2 readers
- Stewart Avenue — 1 reader
- West Green Street — 1 reader
Ithaca NY PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Ithaca NY PD runs 21 cameras of its own, has captured 202,092 vehicle records. Its network connects to 8 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Cayuga Heights Village NY PD, Cornell University NY PD, Groton Village NY PD, Ithaca College Campus NY PD, New York State Police NY, NYS Crime Analysis Center Network, Tompkins County NY SO, Trumansburg Village NY PD.
Ithaca in the Tompkins County picture
Tompkins County has 69 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #283 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 13.2% nationally. That’s across 102,879 residents and 1,013 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around Ithaca, last 30 days
3 removed in our hourly change log for Ithaca. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.
What’s watching Ithaca
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 Ithaca — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ithaca (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Ithaca
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Ithaca, NY
- On the agenda: Ithaca meeting — license plate reader (Aug 12)
- 13 license plate readers reported removed near Ithaca, NY
- On the agenda: Ithaca Agenda — Flock Camera (Jul 15)
What you can do in Ithaca
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 Ithaca
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).