Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Portland Gardens, Maine
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around South Portland Gardens — 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 South Portland Gardens, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside South Portland Gardens itself.
The rest sit in South Portland (6), Portland (1).
7 of them name an operator in the record: South Portland Police (6), Portland Police (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.
Need this city’s camera data? Custom extracts are free for researchers, journalists and advocates. Ask for it.
No new reports near South Portland Gardens in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:35 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in South Portland Gardens
The readers mapped around South Portland Gardens break down as 7 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: South Portland Police, Portland Police. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- Westbrook Street — 2 readers
- Main Street — 2 readers
- Maine Mall Road — 1 reader
- Johnson Road — 1 reader
- Perimeter Road — 1 reader
South Portland Gardens in the Cumberland County picture
Cumberland County has 12 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #2,043 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 305,940 residents and 3,182 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 67.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic. Operators named on the record: South Portland Police (6), Portland Police (1).
What’s watching South Portland Gardens
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 South Portland Gardens — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Portland Gardens (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in South Portland Gardens
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 South Portland Gardens
← All Maine cameras, counties & cities
Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).