Flock & ALPR Cameras in Boston Seaport, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Boston Seaport — 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 Boston Seaport, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Boston Seaport itself.
The rest sit in Boston (3).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Boston Seaport
The readers mapped around Boston Seaport break down as 2 of unrecorded make, 1 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2019; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Massachusetts Turnpike — 2 readers
- Stillings Street — 1 reader
Boston Seaport 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.
Camera activity around Boston Seaport, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Boston Seaport. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Boston Seaport
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 Boston Seaport — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Boston Seaport (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Boston Seaport
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 Boston Seaport
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).