Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mission Hill, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Mission Hill — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mission Hill, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Mission Hill itself.
The rest sit in Boston (3).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Boston 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 Mission Hill in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 11, 20:49 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Mission Hill
The readers mapped around Mission Hill break down as 3 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Boston Police. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Frawley Street — 2 readers
- Huntington Avenue — 1 reader
Mission Hill in the Suffolk County picture
Suffolk County has 56 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,879 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 782,172 residents and 785 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: Boston Police (3).
What’s watching Mission Hill
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 Mission Hill — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mission Hill (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Mission Hill
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 Mission Hill
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).