Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rapids, New York
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Rapids — 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 Rapids, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Rapids itself.
The rest sit in Town of Pendleton (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Rapids in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:00 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Rapids
The readers mapped around Rapids break down as 2 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jun 2026.
- Tonawanda Creek Road North — 2 readers
Rapids in the Niagara County picture
Niagara County has 49 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,253 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 211,341 residents and 1,017 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Rapids
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 Rapids — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rapids (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Rapids
- Flock Camera Ripped Down in Grand Rapids, Reddit Reacts
- Drunk driver hits FLOCK camera in Cedar Rapids
- Grand Rapids Reddit Goes Wild After Flock Camera Falls
- Flock camera down in Cedar Rapids
What you can do in Rapids
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 Rapids
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).