Flock & ALPR Cameras in Poughkeepsie, New York
Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around Poughkeepsie — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 25 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Poughkeepsie, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Poughkeepsie itself.
The rest sit in City of Poughkeepsie (25).
1 of them name an operator in the record: McDonald's (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 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Poughkeepsie
The readers mapped around Poughkeepsie break down as 25 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: McDonald's. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Main Street — 4 readers
- North Hamilton Street — 2 readers
- Church Street — 2 readers
- Cannon Street — 2 readers
- Davies Place — 1 reader
- Hooker Avenue — 1 reader
- Forbus Street — 1 reader
- Market Street — 1 reader
- Fox Terrace — 1 reader
- Livingston Street — 1 reader
- South White Street — 1 reader
- North Clinton Street — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Poughkeepsie — all on the live map above.
Poughkeepsie in the Dutchess County picture
Dutchess County has 116 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #756 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 297,144 residents and 2,611 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 13.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic. Operators named on the record: McDonald's (1).
Camera activity around Poughkeepsie, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Poughkeepsie. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Poughkeepsie
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 Poughkeepsie — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Poughkeepsie (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Poughkeepsie
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What you can do in Poughkeepsie
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 Poughkeepsie
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).