Flock & ALPR Cameras in Central Falls, Rhode Island
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Central Falls — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Central Falls, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Central Falls itself.
The rest sit in Pawtucket (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Central Falls in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Central Falls
The readers mapped around Central Falls break down as 6 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Lonsdale Avenue — 2 readers
- Broadway — 1 reader
- Leonard Jenard Drive — 1 reader
- Higginson Avenue — 1 reader
- Illinois Street — 1 reader
- Congress Street — 1 reader
Central Falls RI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Central Falls RI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 17 other agencies.
Central Falls in the Providence County picture
Providence County has 188 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,065 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 658,977 residents and 2,117 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
What’s watching Central Falls
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 Central Falls — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Central Falls (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Central Falls
What you can do in Central Falls
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 Central Falls
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).