Flock & ALPR Cameras in Purchase, New York
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Purchase — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Purchase, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Purchase itself.
The rest sit in Town/Village of Harrison (6), Village of Rye Brook (1).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Westchester County RTC/Intelligence Regional and National Data Sharing (3), Westchester County Police RTC/Intelligence Regional and National Data Sharing (2). 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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No new reports near Purchase in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Purchase
The readers mapped around Purchase break down as 5 Rekor, 1 Mobitix, 1 Neology, Inc.. Named operators in the reports: Westchester County RTC/Intelligence Regional and National Data Sharing, Westchester County Police RTC/Intelligence Regional and National Data Sharing. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Westchester Avenue — 3 readers
- I 684 — 2 readers
- Airport Road — 1 reader
- Lake Street — 1 reader
Purchase in the Westchester County picture
Westchester County has 221 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,301 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 996,888 residents and 2,977 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 7.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: Westchester County RTC/Intelligence Regional and National Data Sharing (3), Westchester County Police RTC/Intelligence Regional and National Data Sharing (2).
Camera activity around Purchase, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Purchase. Latest change logged Aug 25, 2026.
What’s watching Purchase
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 Purchase — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Purchase (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Purchase
- WHMI 93.5 Local News : Hartland School Board Approves Purchase of Duel-Facing Stop Arm Cameras for Bus Fleet
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Purchase, NY
- LITTLE ROCK NOTEBOOK: HUD official named to help oversee housing authority | Purchase of surveillance cameras approved
- Elmira Police Department receives grant to purchase RAVEN Gunshot Detection System
What you can do in Purchase
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 Purchase
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).