Flock & ALPR Cameras in Port Richmond, New York
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Port Richmond — 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 Port Richmond, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Port Richmond itself.
The rest sit in New York (2).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Port of authority of New York and New Jersey (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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- Oct 6 License plate reader newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Port Richmond
The readers mapped around Port Richmond break down as 1 Kapsch. Named operators in the reports: Port of authority of New York and New Jersey. Every report here dates to Nov 2025.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway — 1 reader
Port Richmond 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 1 traffic. Operators named on the record: Port of authority of New York and New Jersey (1).
What’s watching Port Richmond
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 Port Richmond — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Port Richmond (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Port Richmond
What you can do in Port Richmond
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 Port Richmond
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).