Flock & ALPR Cameras in North Tonawanda, New York
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around North Tonawanda — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Cameras Removed
North Tonawanda is on the record here. North Tonawanda is removing its last remaining Flock ALPR camera.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of North Tonawanda, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside North Tonawanda itself.
The rest sit in City of North Tonawanda (9), Town of Amherst (3), Town of Pendleton (1), Town of Wheatfield (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in North Tonawanda
The readers mapped around North Tonawanda break down as 14 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Kingston Avenue — 8 readers
- Sweet Home Road — 1 reader
- North French Road — 1 reader
- Shawnee Road — 1 reader
- Oakwood Drive — 1 reader
- Ohio Street — 1 reader
- Amherst Canalway Trail — 1 reader
North Tonawanda in the Niagara County picture
Niagara County has 49 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,253 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 211,341 residents and 1,017 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 13 traffic.
Camera activity around North Tonawanda, last 30 days
9 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for North Tonawanda. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching North Tonawanda
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 North Tonawanda — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to North Tonawanda (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around North Tonawanda
- 8 new license plate readers reported around North Tonawanda, NY
- North Tonawanda hits brakes on Flock cameras
- North Tonawanda rescinds agreement for county Flock cameras to be placed throughout city
- North Tonawanda to remove last remaining Flock camera
What you can do in North Tonawanda
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 North Tonawanda
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).