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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Smithtown, New York

Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Smithtown — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Smithtown, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Smithtown itself.

The rest sit in Town of Smithtown (1).

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

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Reported cameras nearby
#566
of 701 New York cities tracked
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of New York’s reported cameras
Live camera map 1 reported cameras around Smithtown, 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 Smithtown

No new reports near Smithtown in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:53 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Smithtown

The readers mapped around Smithtown break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to May 2026.

  • Saint Johnland Road — 1 reader

Smithtown 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 1 traffic.

What’s watching Smithtown

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

What you can do in Smithtown

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 Smithtown

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