Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wakefield, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Wakefield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Wakefield
The readers mapped around Wakefield break down as 2 of unrecorded make, 2 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Wakefield Police. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Water Street — 1 reader
- North Avenue — 1 reader
- Salem Street — 1 reader
- Gerard Street — 1 reader
Wakefield MA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wakefield MA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 13 other agencies.
Wakefield 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 3 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Wakefield Police (2).
Camera activity around Wakefield, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Wakefield. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Wakefield
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 Wakefield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wakefield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Wakefield
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 Wakefield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).