Flock & ALPR Cameras in Smith Mills, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Smith Mills — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Smith Mills, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Smith Mills itself.
The rest sit in Dartmouth (9), New Bedford (1).
10 of them name an operator in the record: Lowes (4), Home Depot (3), Dartmouth Police (2), New Bedford 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 Smith Mills in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Smith Mills
The readers mapped around Smith Mills break down as 10 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowes, Home Depot, Dartmouth Police, New Bedford Police. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Jan 2026.
- Old Faunce Corner Road — 3 readers
- Dartmouth Towne Center — 2 readers
- Frontage Road — 1 reader
- Hathaway Road — 1 reader
- Reed Road — 1 reader
- Faunce Corner Mall Road — 1 reader
- State Road — 1 reader
Smith Mills in the Bristol County picture
Bristol County has 101 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,476 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 578,436 residents and 2,490 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Lowes (4), Home Depot (3), Dartmouth Police (2).
What’s watching Smith Mills
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 Smith Mills — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Smith Mills (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Smith Mills
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 Smith Mills
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).