Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lawrence, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Lawrence — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lawrence, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Lawrence itself.
The rest sit in Methuen (3).
11 of them name an operator in the record: Lawrence Police (8), Methuen Police (3). 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 Lawrence in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:16 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lawrence
The readers mapped around Lawrence break down as 10 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Lawrence Police, Methuen Police. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Merrimack Street — 1 reader
- South Union Street — 1 reader
- Andover Street — 1 reader
- Manchester Street — 1 reader
- Montgomery Street — 1 reader
- Riverside Drive — 1 reader
- Haverhill Street — 1 reader
- Ames Street — 1 reader
- Jackson Street — 1 reader
- Merrimac Street — 1 reader
- Swan Street — 1 reader
Lawrence MA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lawrence MA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 17 other agencies.
Lawrence in the Essex County picture
Essex County has 92 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,699 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 807,258 residents and 3,168 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 22% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lawrence Police (8), Methuen Police (3).
Camera activity around Lawrence, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lawrence. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.
What’s watching Lawrence
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 Lawrence — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lawrence (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lawrence
- On the agenda: Lawrence meeting — Automated License Plate (Oct 6)
- Lawrence PD refutes Methuen councilor’s 350+ Flock camera search claim: ‘Incomplete accounts’
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Lawrence, MA
- On the agenda: Lawrence meeting — Flock Safety (May 5)
What you can do in Lawrence
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 Lawrence
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).