Flock & ALPR Cameras in Norwood, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Norwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Norwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 12 of them sit inside Norwood itself.
The rest sit in Westwood (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Police (Norwood) (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 Norwood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Norwood
The readers mapped around Norwood break down as 13 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Police (Norwood). The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Boston-Providence Turnpike — 4 readers
- University Avenue — 2 readers
- Sumner Street — 1 reader
- Washington Street — 1 reader
- Nahatan Street — 1 reader
- Walpole Street — 1 reader
- Upland Road — 1 reader
- Winter Street — 1 reader
- Dean Street — 1 reader
Norwood MA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Norwood MA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 17 other agencies.
Norwood in the Norfolk County picture
Norfolk County has 166 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,264 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 724,540 residents and 2,704 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic. Operators named on the record: Police (Norwood) (1).
Camera activity around Norwood, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Norwood. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Norwood
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 Norwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Norwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Norwood
- Police Chiefs in Norwood and North Attleboro, Massachusetts, Defend Flock License Plate Cameras, Citing a Missing Rhode Island Teenager and Violent Crime Investigations
- Police chiefs in Norwood, North Attleboro fight to keep Flock cameras
What you can do in Norwood
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 Norwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).