Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Amherst, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around South Amherst — 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 South Amherst, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside South Amherst itself.
The rest sit in Belchertown (2).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Dwight Mini Mart (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 South Amherst in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:17 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in South Amherst
The readers mapped around South Amherst break down as 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Dwight Mini Mart. Every report here dates to Feb 2026.
- Federal Street — 2 readers
South Amherst in the Hampshire County picture
Hampshire County has 9 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,951 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 156,595 residents and 1,612 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 57.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 parking. Operators named on the record: Dwight Mini Mart (1).
What’s watching South Amherst
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 South Amherst — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Amherst (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in South Amherst
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 South Amherst
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).