Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Albany, New York
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around West Albany — 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 West Albany, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside West Albany itself.
The rest sit in City of Albany (11).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near West Albany in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:16 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in West Albany
The readers mapped around West Albany break down as 11 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Western Avenue — 3 readers
- Central Avenue — 2 readers
- North Main Avenue — 1 reader
- Washington Avenue — 1 reader
- Shaker Road — 1 reader
- Watervliet Avenue Extension — 1 reader
- Colonial Avenue — 1 reader
- Homes Dale Avenue — 1 reader
West Albany in the Albany County picture
Albany County has 117 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #817 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 315,374 residents and 1,724 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic.
Camera activity around West Albany, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for West Albany. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching West Albany
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 West Albany — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Albany (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around West Albany
What you can do in West Albany
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 West Albany
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).