Flock & ALPR Cameras in Quincy, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 44 automated license plate readers in and around Quincy — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 44 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Quincy, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 43 of them sit inside Quincy itself.
The rest sit in Braintree (1).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Quincy Police (2), BJs Wholesale Club (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 Quincy 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 Quincy
The readers mapped around Quincy break down as 39 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make, 2 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Quincy Police, BJs Wholesale Club. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Adams Street — 5 readers
- Quincy Avenue — 4 readers
- Hancock Street — 3 readers
- Quincy Shore Drive — 2 readers
- Furnace Brook Parkway — 2 readers
- Centre Street — 2 readers
- Crown Colony Drive — 2 readers
- Quarry Street — 2 readers
- Walter J. Hannon Parkway — 2 readers
- Washington Street — 2 readers
- Copeland Street — 2 readers
- Sea Street — 2 readers
+ 14 more streets and roads mapped around Quincy — all on the live map above.
Quincy MA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Quincy MA PD has logged 302 plate-database searches, has captured 611,250 vehicle records. Its network connects to 20 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Quincy 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 33 traffic, 1 street, 1 public. Operators named on the record: Quincy Police (2), BJs Wholesale Club (1).
Camera activity around Quincy, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Quincy. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Quincy
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 Quincy — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Quincy (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Quincy
- Quincy has the most Flock cameras in all of Massachusetts
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Quincy, MA
What you can do in Quincy
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 Quincy
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).