Flock & ALPR Cameras in Saranac Lake, New York
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Saranac Lake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Saranac Lake is on the record here. Saranac Lake, NY canceled its contract with Flock following public outcry and concerns over privacy.
On the record · Contract Rejected
Saranac Lake is on the record here. Saranac Lake leaders voted against adopting Flock Safety cameras after public input.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Saranac Lake, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Saranac Lake itself.
The rest sit in Village of Saranac Lake (2), Town of Brighton (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Saranac Lake Police Department (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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No new reports near Saranac Lake in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 13:24 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Saranac Lake
The readers mapped around Saranac Lake break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Saranac Lake Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in May 2026.
- Broadway Street — 1 reader
- Lake Flower Avenue — 1 reader
- Adirondack Trail — 1 reader
Saranac Lake in the Franklin County picture
Franklin County has 12 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,162 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 47,066 residents and 2,008 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 56.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: Saranac Lake Police Department (1).
What’s watching Saranac Lake
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 Saranac Lake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Saranac Lake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Saranac Lake
What you can do in Saranac Lake
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.
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Cameras near Saranac Lake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).