Flock & ALPR Cameras in Vails Gate, New York
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Vails Gate — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Vails Gate, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Vails Gate itself.
The rest sit in Town of New Windsor (4), Town of Cornwall (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Vails Gate in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:57 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Vails Gate
The readers mapped around Vails Gate break down as 3 of unrecorded make, 1 Flock Safety, 1 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Little Britain Road — 1 reader
- Windsor Highway — 1 reader
- State Route 32 — 1 reader
- Dragon Drive — 1 reader
- New York State Thruway — 1 reader
Vails Gate in the Orange County picture
Orange County has 182 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #622 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 403,840 residents and 2,868 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Vails Gate, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Vails Gate. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.
What’s watching Vails Gate
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 Vails Gate — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Vails Gate (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Vails Gate
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 Vails Gate
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).