Flock & ALPR Cameras in Thornwood, New York
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Thornwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Thornwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Thornwood itself.
The rest sit in Town of Mount Pleasant (12).
12 of them name an operator in the record: Mount Pleasant/Westchester County Police RTC/Intelligence Regional and National Data Sharing (12). 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 Thornwood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Thornwood
The readers mapped around Thornwood break down as 11 Rekor, 1 Vigilant. Named operators in the reports: Mount Pleasant/Westchester County Police RTC/Intelligence Regional and National Data Sharing. Every report here dates to Aug 2025.
- Marble Avenue — 3 readers
- Bear Ridge Road — 3 readers
- Town of Mount Pleasant — 2 readers
- Franklin Avenue — 2 readers
- Broadway — 1 reader
- Commerce Street — 1 reader
Thornwood in the Westchester County picture
Westchester County has 221 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,301 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 996,888 residents and 2,977 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 7.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic. Operators named on the record: Mount Pleasant/Westchester County Police RTC/Intelligence Regional and National Data Sharing (12).
What’s watching Thornwood
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 Thornwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Thornwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Thornwood
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 Thornwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).