Flock & ALPR Cameras in Syracuse, New York
Volunteers have reported 35 automated license plate readers in and around Syracuse — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Syracuse is on the record here. Syracuse, NY terminated its Flock Safety contract covering 13 cameras. Cited reasons: Data-sharing controversies; Public backlash; Vendor swap (Axon).
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 35 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Syracuse, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Syracuse itself.
The rest sit in City of Syracuse (35).
21 of them name an operator in the record: Syracuse Police Department (20), Destiny USA (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 Syracuse in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 05:31 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Syracuse
The readers mapped around Syracuse break down as 22 Axis Communications, 11 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Syracuse Police Department, Destiny USA. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- East Adams Street — 4 readers
- City of Syracuse — 3 readers
- Seymour Street — 3 readers
- Euclid Avenue — 2 readers
- Court Street — 2 readers
- Park Street — 2 readers
- Solar Street — 1 reader
- Teall Avenue — 1 reader
- Tracy Street — 1 reader
- Comstock Avenue — 1 reader
- Presidential Plaza — 1 reader
- West Onondaga Street — 1 reader
+ 13 more streets and roads mapped around Syracuse — all on the live map above.
Syracuse NY PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Syracuse NY PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 1 other agencies.
Syracuse in the Onondaga County picture
Onondaga County has 104 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,305 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 471,611 residents and 2,488 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 30 traffic, 2 public. Operators named on the record: Syracuse Police Department (20), Destiny USA (1).
Camera activity around Syracuse, last 30 days
12 newly reported in our hourly change log for Syracuse. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Syracuse
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 Syracuse — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Syracuse (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Syracuse
- Syracuse's Flock readers may have been removed, but the readers still flourish in Central New York
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Syracuse, NY
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Syracuse, NY
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Syracuse, NY
What you can do in Syracuse
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 Syracuse
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).