Flock & ALPR Cameras in Tappan, New York
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Tappan — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Tappan, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Tappan itself.
The rest sit in Blauvelt (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Tappan in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Tappan
The readers mapped around Tappan break down as 9 of unrecorded make, 2 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- NY 303 — 1 reader
- State Highway 340 — 1 reader
- Andre Avenue — 1 reader
- Closter Road — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
- Stephens Road — 1 reader
- Andre Hill — 1 reader
- Livingston Street — 1 reader
- Old Tappan Road — 1 reader
- CR 17 — 1 reader
- Palisades Interstate Parkway — 1 reader
Tappan in the Rockland County picture
Rockland County has 71 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,345 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 338,936 residents and 1,019 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
Camera activity around Tappan, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Tappan. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.
What’s watching Tappan
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 Tappan — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Tappan (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Tappan
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 Tappan
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).