Flock & ALPR Cameras in Back Bay, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Back Bay — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Back Bay, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Back Bay itself.
The rest sit in Boston (3).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Back Bay in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 14:38 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Back Bay
The readers mapped around Back Bay break down as 2 TransCore, 1 of unrecorded make. Every report here dates to Aug 2020.
- Massachusetts Turnpike — 2 readers
- Trinity Place — 1 reader
Back Bay in the Suffolk County picture
Suffolk County has 56 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,879 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 782,172 residents and 785 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 parking.
What’s watching Back Bay
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 Back Bay — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Back Bay (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Back Bay
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 Back Bay
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).