Flock & ALPR Cameras in Tonawanda, New York
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Tonawanda — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Tonawanda, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Tonawanda itself.
The rest sit in Town of Tonawanda (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Tonawanda in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Tonawanda
The readers mapped around Tonawanda break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Dec 2024.
- Delaware Avenue — 1 reader
- Twin Cities Memorial Highway — 1 reader
Tonawanda NY PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Tonawanda NY PD runs 13 cameras of its own, has logged 93 plate-database searches, has captured 359,963 vehicle records.
Tonawanda in the Erie County picture
Erie County has 291 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,002 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 950,044 residents and 3,136 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Tonawanda
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 Tonawanda — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Tonawanda (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Tonawanda
- Tonawanda Switches Camera Systems To Save Money
- Tonawanda votes to switch from Flock to Axon license plate readers – News 4 Buffalo
- Tonawanda votes to switch from Flock to Axon license plate readers
- Town of Tonawanda approves new license plate camera contract with Axon
What you can do in Tonawanda
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 Tonawanda
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).