Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cochituate, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Cochituate — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cochituate, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Cochituate itself.
The rest sit in Natick (10), Weston (2).
11 of them name an operator in the record: unknown (5), Home Depot (retailer) (4), 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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No new reports near Cochituate in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Cochituate
The readers mapped around Cochituate break down as 9 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: unknown, Home Depot (retailer), Massachusetts Department of Transportation. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2018; the most recent in Feb 2026.
- Superior Drive — 3 readers
- Massachusetts Turnpike — 2 readers
- Chrysler Road — 2 readers
- Speen Street — 1 reader
- Commonwealth Road — 1 reader
- Cochituate Rail Trail — 1 reader
- Natick — 1 reader
- Natick Mall Road — 1 reader
Cochituate in the Middlesex County picture
Middlesex County has 233 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,582 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,622,896 residents and 5,632 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic. Operators named on the record: unknown (5), Home Depot (retailer) (4), Massachusetts Department of Transportation (2).
What’s watching Cochituate
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 Cochituate — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cochituate (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Cochituate
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 Cochituate
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).