Flock & ALPR Cameras in Laurel, New York
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Laurel — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Laurel, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Laurel itself.
The rest sit in Town of Southold (3), Town of Riverhead (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Laurel in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:05 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Laurel
The readers mapped around Laurel break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Route 25 — 1 reader
- Aldrich Lane Extension — 1 reader
- Sound Avenue — 1 reader
- Main Road — 1 reader
- Peconic Bay Boulevard — 1 reader
Laurel in the Suffolk County picture
Suffolk County has 209 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,608 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,525,680 residents and 7,077 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic, 1 street.
What’s watching Laurel
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 Laurel — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Laurel (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Laurel
What you can do in Laurel
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 Laurel
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).