Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rensselaer, New York
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Rensselaer — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Rensselaer, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Rensselaer itself.
The rest sit in City of Rensselaer (8), Town of East Greenbush (2), City of Albany (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Rensselaer
The readers mapped around Rensselaer break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- US 9;US 20 — 2 readers
- Third Avenue — 2 readers
- Lindbergh Avenue — 1 reader
- Troy Road — 1 reader
- Broadway — 1 reader
- Third Avenue Extension — 1 reader
- Herrick Street — 1 reader
Rensselaer NY PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Rensselaer NY PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 34 other agencies.
Rensselaer in the Albany County picture
Albany County has 117 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #817 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 315,374 residents and 1,724 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
What’s watching Rensselaer
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 Rensselaer — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rensselaer (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Rensselaer
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 Rensselaer
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).