Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Peabody, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around South Peabody — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Peabody, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside South Peabody itself.
The rest sit in Lynn (4), Peabody (2), Salem (2).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Lynn Police (2), Peabody Police (2), 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 South Peabody
The readers mapped around South Peabody break down as 6 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Lynn Police, Peabody Police, Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Lynnfield Street — 2 readers
- Traders Way — 2 readers
- Newbury Street — 1 reader
- Lynn Street — 1 reader
- Warwick Street — 1 reader
South Peabody 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 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lynn Police (2), Peabody Police (2), Home Depot (1).
What’s watching South Peabody
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 Peabody — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Peabody (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 Peabody
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 Peabody
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).