Flock & ALPR Cameras in Tewksbury, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Tewksbury — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Tewksbury is on the record here. Tewksbury Police ended their contract with Flock Safety cameras.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Tewksbury, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 18 of them sit inside Tewksbury itself.
The rest sit in Billerica (1).
18 of them name an operator in the record: Tewksbury Police (13), Home Depot (2), Mass State Police (2), Billerica 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 Tewksbury in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:19 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Tewksbury
The readers mapped around Tewksbury break down as 17 Flock Safety, 2 Neology, Inc.. Named operators in the reports: Tewksbury Police, Mass State Police, Home Depot, Billerica Police. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Main Street — 4 readers
- I 93 — 2 readers
- Andover Street — 2 readers
- Whipple Road — 2 readers
- Billerica Avenue — 1 reader
- Chandler Street — 1 reader
- North Billerica Road — 1 reader
- Shawsheen Street — 1 reader
- East Street — 1 reader
- Old Stagecoach Road — 1 reader
- Astle Street — 1 reader
- Tewksbury — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Tewksbury — all on the live map above.
Tewksbury MA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Tewksbury MA PD runs 21 cameras of its own. Its network connects to 23 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Tewksbury in the Middlesex County picture
Middlesex County has 233 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,582 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,622,896 residents and 5,632 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic, 2 entrance. Operators named on the record: Tewksbury Police (13), Mass State Police (2), Home Depot (2).
What’s watching Tewksbury
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 Tewksbury — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Tewksbury (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Tewksbury
- Tewksbury police terminate Flock Safety contract
- Tewksbury Police have ‘no intention’ of bringing ALPRs back under new vendor, chief says
- Tewksbury joins dozens of Massachusetts communities ending Flock
- Tewksbury drops Flock contract
What you can do in Tewksbury
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 Tewksbury
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).