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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Patchogue, New York

Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Patchogue — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Patchogue, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Patchogue itself.

The rest sit in North Patchogue (2), Village of Patchogue (2).

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

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Live camera map 4 reported cameras around Patchogue, 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 Patchogue

No new reports near Patchogue in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:09 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Patchogue

The readers mapped around Patchogue break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Gateway Boulevard — 2 readers
  • West Main Street — 1 reader
  • Baker Street — 1 reader

Patchogue in the Suffolk County picture

Suffolk County has 209 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,608 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,525,680 residents and 7,077 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21.8% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.

What’s watching Patchogue

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

The latest around Patchogue

What you can do in Patchogue

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 Patchogue

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