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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Scotchtown, New York

Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Scotchtown — 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 Scotchtown, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Scotchtown itself.

The rest sit in Town of Crawford (2).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#493
of 701 New York cities tracked
0.1%
of New York’s reported cameras
Live camera map 2 reported cameras around Scotchtown, New York
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Scotchtown

No new reports near Scotchtown in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:20 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Scotchtown

The readers mapped around Scotchtown break down as 2 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Mar 2026.

  • State Highway 17K — 1 reader
  • State Highway 302 — 1 reader

Scotchtown in the Orange County picture

Orange County has 182 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #622 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 403,840 residents and 2,868 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.4% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.

What’s watching Scotchtown

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 Scotchtown — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Scotchtown (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Scotchtown

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.

Cameras near Scotchtown

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).