Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cranston, Rhode Island
Volunteers have reported 36 automated license plate readers in and around Cranston — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 36 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cranston, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 24 of them sit inside Cranston itself.
The rest sit in Providence (7), Warwick (5).
19 of them name an operator in the record: Cranston Police Department (14), Warwick Police Department (5). 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 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Cranston
The readers mapped around Cranston break down as 34 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Cranston Police Department, Warwick Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Park Avenue — 3 readers
- Post Road — 3 readers
- Garfield Avenue — 3 readers
- Broad Street — 3 readers
- New London Avenue — 2 readers
- Reservoir Avenue — 2 readers
- Oaklawn Avenue — 2 readers
- Byfield Street — 2 readers
- Cranston Street — 1 reader
- Atwood Avenue — 1 reader
- Pontiac Avenue — 1 reader
- Jefferson Boulevard — 1 reader
+ 11 more streets and roads mapped around Cranston — all on the live map above.
Cranston RI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cranston RI PD runs 36 cameras of its own, has logged 1,163 plate-database searches, has captured 557,033 vehicle records. Its network connects to 47 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Braintree MA PD, Bristol CT PD, Burrillville RI PD, Central Falls RI PD, Clinton CT PD, Cumberland RI PD, East Providence RI PD, Fairhaven MA PD.
Cranston 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 33 traffic, 1 fixed. Operators named on the record: Cranston Police Department (14), Warwick Police Department (5).
What’s watching Cranston
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 Cranston — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cranston (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cranston
- 2 men accused of stealing cooking oil in Cranston
- NEW: Two Arrested in Cranston Restaurant Cooking Oil Theft - Police Tout Role of Controversial Flock Cameras
- Cranston Mayor Ken Hopkins shares why he supports Flock cameras
- Cranston Defends Use of Flock, As More RI Communities Reject Surveillance Tech
What you can do in Cranston
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 Cranston
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).