Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hingham, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Hingham — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hingham, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Hingham itself.
The rest sit in Hull (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 4 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Hingham
The readers mapped around Hingham break down as 4 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Aug 2026.
- Hull Shore Drive — 4 readers
Hingham MA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hingham MA PD runs 1 cameras of its own, has logged 42 plate-database searches, has captured 100,591 vehicle records. Its network connects to 16 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Hingham in the Plymouth County picture
Plymouth County has 50 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,794 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 531,889 residents and 3,446 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 35.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
Camera activity around Hingham, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hingham. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Hingham
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 Hingham — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hingham (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hingham
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Hingham, MA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Hingham, MA
What you can do in Hingham
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 Hingham
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).