Flock & ALPR Cameras in Northbridge, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Northbridge — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Northbridge, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Northbridge itself.
The rest sit in Grafton (2).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Grafton Police (2). 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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On the agenda: Northbridge meeting — Automated License Plate (Oct 7)
Wednesday, October 7 — today · The full record → · Read the agenda ↗
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Northbridge in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 02:00 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Northbridge
The readers mapped around Northbridge break down as 2 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Grafton Police. The first camera here was reported in May 2026; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Ferry Street — 1 reader
- Providence Road — 1 reader
Northbridge in the Worcester County picture
Worcester County has 91 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,739 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 861,664 residents and 5,743 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 34.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic. Operators named on the record: Grafton Police (2).
What’s watching Northbridge
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 Northbridge — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Northbridge (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Northbridge
What you can do in Northbridge
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 Northbridge
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).