Flock & ALPR Cameras in Olcott, New York
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Olcott — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Olcott, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Olcott itself.
The rest sit in Town of Newfane (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Olcott in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 09:50 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Olcott
The readers mapped around Olcott break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2026; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Hess Road — 1 reader
- West Lake Road — 1 reader
Olcott 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 2 traffic.
What’s watching Olcott
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 Olcott — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Olcott (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Olcott
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 Olcott
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).