As of 13 October 2026, 117 Flock and ALPR cameras are mapped within 10 miles of downtown Stamford (59 tagged Flock Safety), and 1,173 across the wider Stamford metro, a box roughly 50 miles across, run by 111 operators. See each one on the live map below, which way it faces and its approximate capture zone. Free, no account. BanditKin is the private app that routes around them.
BanditKin › Flock camera map › Connecticut › Stamford, CT
Private operators show up in the top twenty, and 59% of the readers have a recorded facing — the Stamford picture in brief.
The operator table is headed by NYC Department of Transportation at 90 cameras (8%), then Nassau County Sheriff's Department at 59. Beyond the top of the table it is a long tail: 111 separate operators in all, ranking Stamford 9th of 251 on operator count.
Private businesses appear on Stamford's map: The Home Depot (50), Simon Property Group (14) sit inside the twenty largest operators, and of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 51 are privately run rather than public. Those cameras are not run by any police agency, though their reads can be shared.
59% of the mapped cameras around Stamford (696 of 1,173) carry a facing direction — 241st of the 251 tracked metros. Bearings are what make camera-aware routing possible, so the higher that share, the more the avoidance layer can do here.
Public records cover 7 agencies around Stamford in the EFF Atlas of Surveillance against 111 operators on the map — the difference between a records project and a mapping project, not a contradiction.
The network is regional rather than municipal. Beyond NYC Department of Transportation, the operator table runs through Westchester County Police RTC/Intelligence Regional and National Data Sharing, New York City Police Department, Old Westbury Police Department, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department and Hempstead Police Department, with the Nassau County Sheriff's Department at 59 — none of which individually dominates the metro.
What the public data actually shows about plate readers around Stamford, counted from the same map above.
117
Flock & ALPR cameras within 10 miles of downtown Stamford
1,173
Across the wider Stamford metro (50-mile box)
111
Separate operating agencies on the map
696
Cameras with a recorded facing direction
Read from the live map on 13 October 2026. Since 5 October 2026 the 10-mile count moved from 110 to 117 (+7) and the metro-box count moved from 1,131 to 1,173 (+42). The underlying records are OpenStreetMap entries plus community submissions — nobody who operates a camera is obliged to declare it, so these are the documented minimum rather than the full picture. The metro is a box roughly 50 miles across centred on Stamford.
Upper third on size among the 251 metro areas tracked, all counted the same way on the same day.
Stamford ranks 41st of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Norfolk, VA and Aurora, CO, and 9th by operator count.
Upper third on size; 241st of 251 on bearing coverage at 59%, and 231st on lead-operator share at 8%.
Mapped ALPR cameras
1,173 — 41st of 251
Separate operators on the map
111 — 9th of 251
Cameras per operator
10.6 — 188th of 251
Largest operator's share
8% — 231st of 251
Share with a recorded bearing
59% — 241st of 251
Ranked against the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks, every one read from the live map on 13 October 2026. Metro areas are drawn as a box around the city centre, so neighbouring metros can share cameras and these counts must never be added together.
111 operators appear on the map around Stamford; the 20 largest are listed here.
NYC Department of Transportation
90 cameras
Nassau County Sheriff's Department
59 cameras
The Home Depot
50 cameras
Westchester County Police RTC/Intelligence Regional and National Data Sharing
44 cameras
New York City Police Department
43 cameras
Old Westbury Police Department
43 cameras
Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department
41 cameras
Hempstead Police Department
36 cameras
Suffolk County Sheriff's Office
32 cameras
Mount Pleasant/Westchester County Police RTC/Intelligence Regional and National Data Sharing
31 cameras
Western Connecticut County Sheriff's Office
30 cameras
Fairfield Police Department
24 cameras
Glen Cove Police Department
21 cameras
Greater Bridgeport County Sheriff's Office
20 cameras
Brookville Police Department
19 cameras
Westchester County Sheriff's Office
18 cameras
Yonkers Police Department
17 cameras
Nassau County Police Department
15 cameras
Simon Property Group
14 cameras
Garden City Police Department
13 cameras
These are the 20 largest of 111 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (413 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 194 cameras record no operator of any kind.
'Flock' has become shorthand for any plate reader. Around Stamford it is only part of the story — 52% of the vendor-tagged cameras — but Rekor accounts for 185.
Flock Safety
581 cameras
Rekor
185 cameras
Ekin
115 cameras
Genetec
63 cameras
Leonardo
55 cameras
Motorola Solutions
51 cameras
Mobotix
32 cameras
Axis Communications
31 cameras
Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 25 of 1,173 mapped cameras name no manufacturer at all, which makes the actual distribution broader than shown. 2 further manufacturers fall below the eight shown. These count cameras on the map, not purchase orders.
696 of the 1,173 mapped cameras around Stamford record which way they point, which is what makes routing around them possible.
They are easy to miss and hard to unsee — a small rectangular box on a narrow pole near a junction, generally with a solar panel and a stubby barrel lens. Where the data records how a camera around Stamford is mounted, the split is:
On a dedicated pole
527 cameras
On a street lamp
28 cameras
On an overhead gantry
10 cameras
On a post
7 cameras
On a wall
1 camera
One camera covers one approach, so its heading is what decides which journeys end up recorded. Around Stamford the mapped bearings distribute like this:
Facing north
123 cameras
Facing south
101 cameras
Facing northwest
93 cameras
Facing southeast
89 cameras
Facing east
79 cameras
Facing southwest
76 cameras
Facing west
68 cameras
Facing northeast
67 cameras
Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 458 mapped cameras have no recorded bearing, and 19 are tagged as omnidirectional.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance documents 7 agencies in the Stamford area with automated license plate readers, from public records and news reports. The map records 111 operators.
The Monroe Police Department scanned 2,328 license plates in 2019 using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers. Vendor: Vigilant Solutions.
The Greenwich Police Department has used automated license plate readers since 2008.
The Stamford Police Department began using automated license plate readers in 2013. Vendor: Rekor Systems.
The Darien Police Department acquired automated license plate readers that can scan 15 license plates per second in 2010. Vendor: ELSAG.
The Norwalk Police Department entered into a two-year contract with Flock Safety for automated license plate readers, beginning August 2025. Vendor: Flock Safety.
The Danbury Police Department acquired ELSAG automated license plate readers as early as 2015. Vendor: ELSAG.
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.
Every camera on this map reads plates from one direction — the cone shows its approximate capture zone. BanditKin's private navigation uses those cones to route around cameras when you ask it to, with a strength slider you control. When a camera-free route doesn't exist, it says so honestly and falls back to the normal route.
This page is part of the Connecticut camera hub, which counts every camera inside the state line rather than by metro box. New to this? Read what ALPR cameras capture, how long it is kept, and who can search it. Not in Stamford? Search the full map by any city.
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Get BanditKin on Google PlayAs of 13 October 2026, 117 Flock and ALPR cameras are mapped within 10 miles of downtown Stamford, 59 of them tagged Flock Safety. Across the wider metro, a box roughly 50 miles across, the map records 1,173 cameras run by 111 separate operators. That is a documented floor, not a full inventory: cameras appear as people map them, and 25 carry no manufacturer tag at all.
Open the map at the top of this page: every mapped camera around Stamford is plotted with its capture cone where a bearing is recorded. They cluster at junctions, on arterial roads and at the entrances to shopping centres. Missing one? Report it on the map.
111 operators in total, led by NYC Department of Transportation (90) and Nassau County Sheriff's Department (59). Of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 254 are police, 159 are sheriff's offices and 51 are privately run.
Yes, within limits. BanditKin routes around the 696 Stamford cameras whose facing direction is known (59% of the total), with a slider for how hard to try, and it tells you honestly when no camera-free route exists. It is off by default and never sends your identity or location.
Yes, the map is free, and no account is needed. It is built on public data — OpenStreetMap and the EFF Atlas of Surveillance — plus community reports. The BanditKin app adds the private navigation that routes around the cameras.