Flock & ALPR Cameras in Abington, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Abington — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Abington is on the record here. Abington, Massachusetts, Police Chief John Bonney announced the department will end its Flock agreement and have the cameras removed, citing community concern. Boston.com and WCVB reported the announcement with Ayer, Groton, and Southbridge. Distinct from Abington Township, Pennsylvania (CAN-2026-112).
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Abington, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Abington itself.
The rest sit in Rockland (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (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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No new reports near Abington in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Abington
The readers mapped around Abington break down as 6 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- Thayer Street — 2 readers
- Brockton Avenue — 1 reader
- Centre Avenue — 1 reader
- Bedford Street — 1 reader
- Groveland Street — 1 reader
Abington MA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Abington MA PD runs 10 cameras of its own, has logged 116 plate-database searches, has captured 227,729 vehicle records. Its network connects to 112 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Acushnet MA PD, Attleboro MA PD, Ayer MA PD, Barnstable MA PD, Bellingham MA PD, Beverly MA PD, Blackstone MA PD, Boylston MA PD.
Abington in the Plymouth County picture
Plymouth County has 50 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,794 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 531,889 residents and 3,446 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 35.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (2).
What’s watching Abington
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 Abington — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Abington (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Abington
What you can do in Abington
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 Abington
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).