Flock & ALPR Cameras in North Andover, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around North Andover — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 25 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of North Andover, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside North Andover itself.
The rest sit in Lawrence (12).
22 of them name an operator in the record: North Andover Police (12), Lawrence Police (10). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
13 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 2 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in North Andover
The readers mapped around North Andover break down as 17 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions, 3 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: North Andover Police, Lawrence Police. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Winthrop Avenue — 4 readers
- Massachusetts Avenue — 3 readers
- Marston Street — 2 readers
- Elm Street — 2 readers
- Union Street — 2 readers
- Merrimack Street — 1 reader
- Essex Drive — 1 reader
- South Union Street — 1 reader
- South Broadway — 1 reader
- North Main Street — 1 reader
- High Street — 1 reader
- Prescott Street — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around North Andover — all on the live map above.
North Andover 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 24 traffic. Operators named on the record: North Andover Police (12), Lawrence Police (10).
Camera activity around North Andover, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for North Andover. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching North Andover
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 North Andover — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to North Andover (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around North Andover
- 2 new license plate readers reported around North Andover, MA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around North Andover, MA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around North Andover, MA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around North Andover, MA
What you can do in North Andover
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.
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Cameras near North Andover
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).