Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fall River, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 30 automated license plate readers in and around Fall River — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 28 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Fall River, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 27 of them sit inside Fall River itself.
The rest sit in Somerset (1).
23 of them name an operator in the record: Fall River Police (21), Fall River PD (1), Fall River Police Dept (1). 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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- Sep 22 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Fall River
The readers mapped around Fall River break down as 24 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Fall River Police, Fall River Police Dept. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Brayton Avenue — 3 readers
- North Main Street — 3 readers
- Broadway — 2 readers
- Durfee Street — 2 readers
- Plymouth Avenue — 2 readers
- Elsbree Street — 2 readers
- Rhode Island Avenue — 1 reader
- Globe Street — 1 reader
- Stafford Road — 1 reader
- I 195 — 1 reader
- Rodman Street — 1 reader
- South Main Street — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Fall River — all on the live map above.
Fall River MA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Fall River MA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 22 other agencies.
Fall River in the Bristol County picture
Bristol County has 101 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,476 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 578,436 residents and 2,490 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 25 traffic, 2 public. Operators named on the record: Fall River Police (21), Fall River Police Dept (1).
Camera activity around Fall River, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Fall River. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Fall River
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 Fall River — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fall River (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Fall River
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Fall River, MA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Fall River, MA
- Mayor , police chief would like to see surveillance cameras - News - The Herald News , Fall River , MA
What you can do in Fall River
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 Fall River
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).