Flock & ALPR Cameras in North Wantagh, New York
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around North Wantagh — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 13 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 Wantagh
The readers mapped around North Wantagh break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Wantagh Avenue — 1 reader
- Jerusalem Avenue — 1 reader
North Wantagh in the Nassau County picture
Nassau County has 331 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,226 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,388,138 residents and 3,157 road miles. By road density that is 0.10 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching North Wantagh
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 Wantagh — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to North Wantagh (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in North Wantagh
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 Wantagh
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).