Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lowell, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 36 automated license plate readers in and around Lowell — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 36 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lowell, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 35 of them sit inside Lowell itself.
The rest sit in Chelmsford (1).
34 of them name an operator in the record: Lowell Police (33), Chelmsford Police (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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No new reports near Lowell in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 21:37 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lowell
The readers mapped around Lowell break down as 38 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowell Police, Lowe's, Chelmsford Police. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Gorham Street — 3 readers
- Veterans of Foreign Wars Highway — 2 readers
- Chelmsford Street — 2 readers
- Westford Street — 2 readers
- Union Street — 2 readers
- Middlesex Street — 2 readers
- Lowes Way — 1 reader
- Industrial Avenue — 1 reader
- Boston Road — 1 reader
- Lawrence Street — 1 reader
- Third Avenue — 1 reader
- Maple Street — 1 reader
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Lowell — all on the live map above.
City of Lowell MA and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, City of Lowell MA appears in the sharing network with connections to 2 other agencies.
Lowell 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 25 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowell Police (34), Lowe's (1), Chelmsford Police (1).
What’s watching Lowell
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 Lowell — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lowell (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lowell
- On the agenda: Lowell meeting — Flock Camera (Oct 6)
- On the agenda: Lowell meeting — Flock Safety (Sep 22)
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Lowell, MA
- On the agenda: Lowell meeting — Flock camera (Aug 25)
What you can do in Lowell
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 Lowell
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).