Flock & ALPR Cameras in Methuen, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 41 automated license plate readers in and around Methuen — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Methuen is on the record here. Methuen canceled its contract with Flock Safety.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 43 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Methuen, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 40 of them sit inside Methuen itself.
The rest sit in Lawrence (3).
42 of them name an operator in the record: Methuen Police (27), [Methuen Police] (7), The Home Depot (4), Lawrence Police (3), Lowe's (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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- Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 13 new license plate readers just reported around Methuen, MA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Methuen
Where the cameras are in Methuen
The readers mapped around Methuen break down as 22 Flock Safety, 20 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Methuen Police, [Methuen Police], The Home Depot, Lawrence Police, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Pelham Street — 5 readers
- Howe Street — 4 readers
- North Lowell Street — 4 readers
- Pleasant Valley Street — 3 readers
- Pleasant Street — 3 readers
- Lowell Street — 3 readers
- Broadway — 2 readers
- Lawrence Street — 2 readers
- Loop Connector — 2 readers
- Hampshire Road — 2 readers
- Ranger Road — 1 reader
- Hampstead Street — 1 reader
+ 10 more streets and roads mapped around Methuen — all on the live map above.
Methuen MA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Methuen MA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 15 other agencies.
Methuen 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 39 traffic. Operators named on the record: Methuen Police (27), [Methuen Police] (7), The Home Depot (4).
Camera activity around Methuen, last 30 days
13 newly reported in our hourly change log for Methuen. Latest change logged Aug 20, 2026.
What’s watching Methuen
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 Methuen — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Methuen (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Methuen
- Methuen Case Shows How Often ALPRs Track One Person
- Methuen Official Tracked 359 Times by Flock Police Cameras
- Lowell, Methuen suspend use of Flock cameras
- Methuen cancels contract with Flock
What you can do in Methuen
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 Methuen
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).