Flock & ALPR Cameras in New Hempstead, New York
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around New Hempstead — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of New Hempstead, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside New Hempstead itself.
The rest sit in Hillcrest (2), New City (1), Village of New Hempstead (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near New Hempstead in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:59 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in New Hempstead
The readers mapped around New Hempstead break down as 4 NDI Recognition Systems. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- New Hempstead Road — 4 readers
New Hempstead in the Rockland County picture
Rockland County has 71 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,345 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 338,936 residents and 1,019 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
What’s watching New Hempstead
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 New Hempstead — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to New Hempstead (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around New Hempstead
What you can do in New Hempstead
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 New Hempstead
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).