Flock & ALPR Cameras in Plainview, New York
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Plainview — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Plainview, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Plainview itself.
The rest sit in Old Bethpage (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Nassau County Police Department (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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- Sep 22 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Plainview
The readers mapped around Plainview break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 Leonardo, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Nassau County Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Old Country Road — 2 readers
- Manetto Hill Road — 1 reader
- Kalda Lane — 1 reader
Plainview 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 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Nassau County Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Plainview, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Plainview. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching Plainview
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 Plainview — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Plainview (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Plainview
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 Plainview
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).