Flock & ALPR Cameras in Plainville, Connecticut
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Plainville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Plainville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Plainville itself.
The rest sit in Bristol (8), Farmington (8), Southington (2).
11 of them name an operator in the record: ebm-papst (4), Lowe's (3), Farmington Police Department (2), Bristol Police Department (1), Southington Police Department (1). 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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No new reports near Plainville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Plainville
The readers mapped around Plainville break down as 21 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: ebm-papst, Lowe's, Farmington Police Department, Bristol Police Department, Southington Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Hyde Road — 3 readers
- Hiltbrand Road — 3 readers
- Queen Street — 2 readers
- New Britain Avenue — 2 readers
- Songbird Lane — 2 readers
- Farmington Avenue — 1 reader
- Scott Swamp Road — 1 reader
- Crooked Street — 1 reader
- Redstone Hill Road — 1 reader
- Plainville Avenue — 1 reader
- Partridge Lane — 1 reader
- Washington Street — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Plainville — all on the live map above.
Plainville in the Capitol Planning Region picture
Capitol Planning Region has 271 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,085 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 969,029 residents and 4,715 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic, 4 entrance. Operators named on the record: ebm-papst (4), Lowe's (3), Farmington Police Department (2).
Camera activity around Plainville, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Plainville. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Plainville
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 Plainville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Plainville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Plainville
What you can do in Plainville
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 Plainville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).