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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Grove Hall, Massachusetts

Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Grove Hall — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Grove Hall, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Grove Hall itself.

The rest sit in Boston (2).

2 of them name an operator in the record: Boston Police Department (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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Reported cameras nearby
#150
of 217 Massachusetts cities tracked
0.2%
of Massachusetts’s reported cameras
Live camera map 2 reported cameras around Grove Hall, Massachusetts
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Grove Hall

No new reports near Grove Hall in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Grove Hall

The readers mapped around Grove Hall break down as 2 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Boston Police Department. Every report here dates to Oct 2025.

  • Columbia Road — 2 readers

Grove Hall 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.

Operators named on the record: Boston Police Department (2).

What’s watching Grove Hall

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 Grove Hall — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Grove Hall (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Grove Hall

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.

Cameras near Grove Hall

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).