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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Oakwood, New York

Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Oakwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Oakwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Oakwood itself.

The rest sit in New York (3).

1 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Live camera map 3 reported cameras around Oakwood, 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 Oakwood
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  • Sep 21 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Oakwood

The readers mapped around Oakwood break down as 1 Ekin Box Spotter, 1 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Jun 2026.

  • Hylan Boulevard — 1 reader
  • Ebbitts Street — 1 reader

Oakwood in the Richmond County picture

Richmond County has 60 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,659 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 492,734 residents and 500 road miles. By road density that is 0.12 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.4% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (1).

What’s watching Oakwood

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

What you can do in Oakwood

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.

Cameras near Oakwood

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