Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Cambridgeport — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cambridgeport, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Cambridgeport itself.
The rest sit in Boston (2), Cambridge (2).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Massachusetts Department of Transportation (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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- Oct 4 License plate reader newly reported
- Oct 4 License plate reader newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Cambridgeport
The readers mapped around Cambridgeport break down as 2 E-ZPass. Named operators in the reports: Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Every report here dates to Feb 2019.
- Massachusetts Turnpike — 2 readers
Cambridgeport 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 2 traffic. Operators named on the record: Massachusetts Department of Transportation (2).
What’s watching Cambridgeport
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 Cambridgeport — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cambridgeport (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cambridgeport
What you can do in Cambridgeport
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 Cambridgeport
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).