Flock & ALPR Cameras in Jamaica, New York
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Jamaica — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Jamaica, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Jamaica itself.
The rest sit in New York (22).
20 of them name an operator in the record: New York City Police Department (10), NYC Department of Transportation (8), New York Police Department (2). 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.
Need this city’s camera data? Custom extracts are free for researchers, journalists and advocates. Ask for it.
No new reports near Jamaica in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Jamaica
The readers mapped around Jamaica break down as 12 Genetec, 6 Ekin Box Spotter, 2 Ekin x spotter. Named operators in the reports: New York City Police Department, NYC Department of Transportation, New York Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Tuskegee Airmen Way — 3 readers
- Van Wyck Expressway — 2 readers
- Liberty Avenue — 2 readers
- 150th Street — 2 readers
- Sutphin Boulevard — 2 readers
- Van Wyck Expressway East — 1 reader
- 94th Avenue — 1 reader
- 148th Street — 1 reader
- 155th Street — 1 reader
- Jamaica Avenue — 1 reader
- 160th Street — 1 reader
- Foch Boulevard — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Jamaica — all on the live map above.
Jamaica 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 22 traffic. Operators named on the record: New York City Police Department (10), NYC Department of Transportation (8), New York Police Department (2).
Camera activity around Jamaica, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Jamaica. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Jamaica
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 Jamaica — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Jamaica (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Jamaica
What you can do in Jamaica
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 Jamaica
← All New York cameras, counties & cities
Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).