Flock & ALPR Cameras in Plainville, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Plainville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Plainville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Plainville itself.
The rest sit in North Attleborough (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Plainville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Plainville
The readers mapped around Plainville break down as 5 Flock Safety, 2 Turing. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Taunton Street — 3 readers
- South Street — 2 readers
- Washington Street — 1 reader
- Everett Street — 1 reader
Plainville MA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Plainville MA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 15 other agencies.
Plainville 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 6 traffic.
What’s watching Plainville
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 Plainville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Plainville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Plainville
- On the agenda: Plainville meeting — Automated License Plate (Aug 17)
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Plainville, MA
What you can do in Plainville
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 Plainville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).