Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Hill, New York
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around South Hill — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Hill, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside South Hill itself.
The rest sit in City of Ithaca (3), Town of Ithaca (3), Town of Caroline (1), Town of Newfield (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (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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- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in South Hill
The readers mapped around South Hill break down as 7 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Elmira Road — 3 readers
- Fairgrounds Memorial Parkway — 2 readers
- Van Kirk Road — 1 reader
- Coddington Road — 1 reader
- Grant Egbert Boulevard East — 1 reader
South Hill in the Tompkins County picture
Tompkins County has 69 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #283 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 13.2% nationally. That’s across 102,879 residents and 1,013 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around South Hill, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for South Hill. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching South Hill
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 South Hill — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Hill (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around South Hill
What you can do in South Hill
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 South Hill
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).