Flock & ALPR Cameras in Jackson Heights, New York
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Jackson Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Jackson Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Jackson Heights itself.
The rest sit in New York (15).
12 of them name an operator in the record: New York City Police Department (4), NYC D.O.T (2), The Home Depot (2), NYC DOT Red light Camera (1), NYC DOT Red light camera (1), NYC Department of Transportation (1), Verra Mobility operated NYC DOT red light camera (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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- Sep 11 License plate reader newly reported
- Sep 11 License plate reader newly reported
- Sep 11 License plate reader newly reported
- Sep 8 License plate reader newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Jackson Heights
The readers mapped around Jackson Heights break down as 4 of unrecorded make, 3 Ekin Box Spotter, 3 Leonardo. Named operators in the reports: New York City Police Department, NYC D.O.T, The Home Depot, NYC Department of Transportation. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Grand Central Parkway — 4 readers
- Northern Boulevard — 3 readers
- Boody Street — 3 readers
- 31st Avenue — 2 readers
- 32nd Avenue — 1 reader
- Roosevelt Avenue — 1 reader
- 25th Avenue — 1 reader
Jackson Heights in the Queens County picture
Queens County has 307 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,621 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 2,330,124 residents and 737 road miles. By road density that is 0.42 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: New York City Police Department (4), NYC D.O.T (2), The Home Depot (2).
Camera activity around Jackson Heights, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Jackson Heights. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Jackson Heights
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 Jackson Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Jackson Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Jackson Heights
What you can do in Jackson Heights
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.
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Cameras near Jackson Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).