Flock & ALPR Cameras in Swansea, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Swansea — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Swansea, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Swansea itself.
The rest sit in Somerset (2).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Swansea Police (2), The 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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No new reports near Swansea in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 07:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Swansea
The readers mapped around Swansea break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Swansea Police, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2022; the most recent in Dec 2025.
- Grand Army of the Republic Highway — 2 readers
- Cummings Road — 1 reader
Swansea 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 2 street, 1 parking_entrance. Operators named on the record: Swansea Police (2), The Home Depot (1).
What’s watching Swansea
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 Swansea — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Swansea (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Swansea
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 Swansea
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).