Flock & ALPR Cameras in Saugus, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Saugus — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Saugus, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 17 of them sit inside Saugus itself.
The rest sit in Lynn (3), Revere (1).
18 of them name an operator in the record: Saugus Police (15), Lynn Police (2), The Home Depot (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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- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Saugus
The readers mapped around Saugus break down as 22 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Saugus Police, Lynn Police, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Walnut Street — 4 readers
- Broadway — 4 readers
- Eastern Avenue — 3 readers
- Lincoln Avenue — 2 readers
- Lynn Fells Parkway — 1 reader
- Lamplighters Way — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
- Ballard Street — 1 reader
- Saugus — 1 reader
- Summer Street — 1 reader
- Hammersmith Drive — 1 reader
- Northern Strand Community Trail — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Saugus — all on the live map above.
Saugus MA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Saugus MA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 12 other agencies.
Saugus in the Essex County picture
Essex County has 92 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,699 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 807,258 residents and 3,168 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 22% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 21 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Saugus Police (15), Lynn Police (2), The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Saugus, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Saugus. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching Saugus
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 Saugus — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Saugus (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Saugus
- City Council Approves $13 Million Purchase Of Former Elementary School Site In Saugus
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Saugus, MA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Saugus, MA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Saugus, MA
What you can do in Saugus
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 Saugus
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).