Flock & ALPR Cameras in North End, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around North End — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of North End, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside North End itself.
The rest sit in Boston (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Boston Police (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 North End in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 14:38 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in North End
The readers mapped around North End break down as 1 of unrecorded make, 1 Axon Enterprise. Named operators in the reports: Boston Police. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2020; the most recent in May 2026.
- Lewis Wharf — 1 reader
- Cross Street — 1 reader
North End 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 1 parking, 1 traffic. Operators named on the record: Boston Police (2).
What’s watching North End
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 End — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to North End (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around North End
- Crowds flock to the North End for the San Gennaro Festival
- Police Chiefs in Norwood and North Attleboro, Massachusetts, Defend Flock License Plate Cameras, Citing a Missing Rhode Island Teenager and Violent Crime Investigations
What you can do in North End
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 North End
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).