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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Melville, New York

Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Melville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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Live camera map 1 reported cameras around Melville, New York

Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →

Camera Watch Recently reported near Melville

No new reports near Melville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 01:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Melville

The readers mapped around Melville break down as 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Town of Huntington. Every report here dates to Jul 2026.

Walt Whitman Road — 1 reader

Melville 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 1 traffic. Operators named on the record: Town of Huntington (1).

What’s watching Melville

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

What you can do in Melville

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 Melville

West Hills (1) South Huntington (8) Old Bethpage (2) Plainview (5)

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