Flock & ALPR Cameras in Springfield, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 36 automated license plate readers in and around Springfield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 37 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Springfield, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 35 of them sit inside Springfield itself.
The rest sit in Agawam (1), West Springfield (1).
31 of them name an operator in the record: Springfield Police (30), Agawam 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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- Oct 3 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Springfield
The readers mapped around Springfield break down as 32 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Springfield Police, Agawam Police. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Mill Street — 5 readers
- Alden Street — 4 readers
- Liberty Street — 3 readers
- Walnut Street — 2 readers
- Main Street — 2 readers
- Eastern Avenue — 2 readers
- Hickory Street — 2 readers
- King Street — 2 readers
- State Street — 1 reader
- Wilbraham Road — 1 reader
- Wilbraham Avenue — 1 reader
- Belmont Avenue — 1 reader
+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Springfield — all on the live map above.
Springfield MA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Springfield MA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 16 other agencies.
Springfield in the Hampden County picture
Hampden County has 105 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,276 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 462,853 residents and 2,631 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 31 traffic. Operators named on the record: Springfield Police (30), Agawam Police (1).
Camera activity around Springfield, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Springfield. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Springfield
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 Springfield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Springfield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Springfield
- Help end mass surveillance in Springfield Massachusetts
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Springfield, MA
- On the agenda: Springfield City Council Regular Meeting — Flock camera (Sep 21)
- On the agenda: Springfield City Council Regular Meeting — Flock camera (Sep 8)
What you can do in Springfield
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 Springfield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).