Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sidney, Maine
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Sidney — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 14 License plate reader newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Sidney in the Kennebec County picture
Kennebec County has 2 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #2,128 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 125,614 residents and 2,514 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 93.2% of counties nationally.
What’s watching Sidney
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 Sidney — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sidney (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Sidney
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 Sidney
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).