Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bristol, Connecticut
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Bristol — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bristol, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Bristol itself.
The rest sit in Southington (3).
6 of them name an operator in the record: Bristol Police Department (4), Southington Police Department (2). 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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- Sep 22, 2026 On the agenda: Bristol, CT Board of Finance — LPR camera (Sep 22)
- Sep 22, 2026 On the agenda: Bristol, CT Diversity Council Meeting — Flock camera (Sep 22)
- Sep 1, 2026 On the agenda: Bristol, CT Ordinance Committee — automated license plate (Sep 1)
- Aug 18, 2026 On the agenda: Bristol, CT Board of Police Commissioners — license plate reader (Aug 18)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Bristol in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Bristol
The readers mapped around Bristol break down as 7 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Bristol Police Department, Southington Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- Middle Street — 2 readers
- Terryville Road — 1 reader
- Mount Vernon Road — 1 reader
- Wolcott Road — 1 reader
- Farmington Avenue — 1 reader
- Mountain Road — 1 reader
Bristol CT PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bristol CT PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 24 other agencies.
Bristol in the Naugatuck Valley Planning Region picture
Naugatuck Valley Planning Region has 45 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,772 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 452,303 residents and 2,128 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 28.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: Bristol Police Department (4), Southington Police Department (2).
What’s watching Bristol
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 Bristol — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bristol (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bristol
- On the agenda: Bristol, CT Board of Finance — LPR camera (Sep 22)
- On the agenda: Bristol, CT Diversity Council Meeting — Flock camera (Sep 22)
- On the agenda: Bristol, CT Ordinance Committee — automated license plate (Sep 1)
- On the agenda: Bristol, CT Board of Police Commissioners — license plate reader (Aug 18)
What you can do in Bristol
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 Bristol
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).