Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ludlow, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 27 automated license plate readers in and around Ludlow — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 27 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ludlow, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 12 of them sit inside Ludlow itself.
The rest sit in Springfield (15).
21 of them name an operator in the record: Ludlow Police (8), Springfield Police (7), Lowe's (4), Hampden County Sheriff (1), unknown (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 Ludlow in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Ludlow
The readers mapped around Ludlow break down as 26 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Ludlow Police, Springfield Police, Lowe's, Hampden County Sheriff, unknown. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Boston Road — 8 readers
- Center Street — 4 readers
- East Street — 3 readers
- Nantasket Street — 2 readers
- Main Street — 1 reader
- Springfield — 1 reader
- Holyoke Street — 1 reader
- Russell Street — 1 reader
- Verge Street — 1 reader
- Randall Road — 1 reader
- Cady Street — 1 reader
- Fiberloid Street Extension — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Ludlow — all on the live map above.
Ludlow MA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Ludlow MA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 21 other agencies.
Ludlow in the Hampden County picture
Hampden County has 105 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,276 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 462,853 residents and 2,631 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 25 traffic. Operators named on the record: Ludlow Police (8), Springfield Police (7), Lowe's (4).
Camera activity around Ludlow, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Ludlow. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Ludlow
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 Ludlow — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ludlow (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Ludlow
What you can do in Ludlow
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 Ludlow
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).