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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Oneonta, New York

Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Oneonta — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Oneonta, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Oneonta itself.

The rest sit in City of Oneonta (9), Town of Oneonta (4).

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

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Reported cameras nearby
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of 701 New York cities tracked
0.3%
of New York’s reported cameras
Live camera map 13 reported cameras around Oneonta, 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 Oneonta

No new reports near Oneonta in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Oneonta

The readers mapped around Oneonta break down as 9 Flock Safety, 4 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Main Street — 4 readers
  • State Highway 23 — 3 readers
  • James F. Lettis Highway — 3 readers
  • Courtyard Drive — 1 reader
  • Wilcox Avenue — 1 reader
  • River Street — 1 reader

Oneonta in the Otsego County picture

Otsego County has 3 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,987 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 59,738 residents and 1,887 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 83.2% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 13 traffic.

Camera activity around Oneonta, last 30 days

3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Oneonta. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.

What’s watching Oneonta

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

The latest around Oneonta

What you can do in Oneonta

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 Oneonta

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