Flock & ALPR Cameras in Shirley, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Shirley — 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 Shirley, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Shirley itself.
The rest sit in Lancaster (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Mass State Police (1), Massachusetts State Police (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 Shirley in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:11 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Shirley
The readers mapped around Shirley break down as 1 of unrecorded make, 1 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Massachusetts State Police, Mass State Police. Every report here dates to May 2026.
- MA 2 — 1 reader
- Harvard Road — 1 reader
Shirley in the Middlesex County picture
Middlesex County has 233 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,582 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,622,896 residents and 5,632 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic. Operators named on the record: Massachusetts State Police (1), Mass State Police (1).
What’s watching Shirley
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 Shirley — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Shirley (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Shirley
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 Shirley
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).