Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mansfield, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Mansfield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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On the agenda: Mansfield Select Board — ALPR (Oct 7)
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No new reports near Mansfield in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:20 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Mansfield
The readers mapped around Mansfield break down as 7 of unrecorded make. Every report here dates to May 2026.
- Pratt Street — 4 readers
- Chauncy Street — 3 readers
Mansfield in the Bristol County picture
Bristol County has 101 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,476 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 578,436 residents and 2,490 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
What’s watching Mansfield
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 Mansfield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mansfield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mansfield
- On the agenda: Mansfield Select Board — ALPR (Oct 7)
- In the minutes: Mansfield minutes, Flock camera (Aug 19)
- On the agenda: Mansfield meeting — Automated License Plate (Mar 18)
- Anger as Met Police plan use of facial recognition at coronation | Mansfield and Ashfield Chad
What you can do in Mansfield
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 Mansfield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).