Flock & ALPR Cameras in Riverhead, New York
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Riverhead — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Riverhead, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Riverhead itself.
The rest sit in Town of Southampton (5).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Riverhead
The readers mapped around Riverhead break down as 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Mill Road — 2 readers
- Center Drive South — 2 readers
- Nugent Drive — 2 readers
- Old Country Road — 1 reader
- Pulaski Street — 1 reader
- Peconic Avenue — 1 reader
- Riverhead Landing — 1 reader
Riverhead in the Suffolk County picture
Suffolk County has 209 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,608 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,525,680 residents and 7,077 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic.
Camera activity around Riverhead, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Riverhead. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Riverhead
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 Riverhead — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Riverhead (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Riverhead
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 Riverhead
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).