Flock & ALPR Cameras in Worcester, Massachusetts
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Worcester — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Worcester, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 12 of them sit inside Worcester itself.
The rest sit in Auburn (1).
10 of them name an operator in the record: Worcester Police (8), Auburn Police (1), Target (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 23 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Worcester
The readers mapped around Worcester break down as 7 Flock Safety, 4 Genetec, 2 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Worcester Police, Target, Auburn Police. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Lincoln Street — 4 readers
- Green Street — 1 reader
- Chandler Street — 1 reader
- Madison Street — 1 reader
- Kelley Square — 1 reader
- Belmont Street — 1 reader
- May Street — 1 reader
- Southbridge Street — 1 reader
- Jerome Avenue — 1 reader
- Gold Star Boulevard — 1 reader
Worcester in the Worcester County picture
Worcester County has 91 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,739 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 861,664 residents and 5,743 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 34.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic, 1 parking_entrance. Operators named on the record: Worcester Police (8), Target (1), Auburn Police (1).
Camera activity around Worcester, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Worcester. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Worcester
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 Worcester — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Worcester (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Worcester
- Worcester, Massachusetts Votes To Ban Facial Recognition Use
- More than a dozen Massachusetts organizations call on Worcester to reconsider ShotSpotter Connect contract
What you can do in Worcester
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 Worcester
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).