Flock & ALPR Cameras in East Providence, Rhode Island
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around East Providence — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of East Providence, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 14 of them sit inside East Providence itself.
The rest sit in Providence (5).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (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 East Providence in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in East Providence
The readers mapped around East Providence break down as 17 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Warren Avenue — 3 readers
- Pawtucket Avenue — 2 readers
- Henderson Parkway — 2 readers
- US 44 — 1 reader
- East Providence Expressway — 1 reader
- Carolina Avenue — 1 reader
- East Providence — 1 reader
- Providence — 1 reader
- East Shore Expressway — 1 reader
- Highland Avenue — 1 reader
- Whipple Avenue — 1 reader
- Taunton Avenue — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around East Providence — all on the live map above.
East Providence RI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, East Providence RI PD runs 23 cameras of its own, has logged 243 plate-database searches, has captured 460,780 vehicle records. Its network connects to 22 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
East Providence 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 16 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
Camera activity around East Providence, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for East Providence. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.
What’s watching East Providence
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 East Providence — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to East Providence (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around East Providence
- Ward 4 candidates find plenty of common ground at East Providence forum | EastBayRI.com - News, Opinion, Things to Do in the East Bay
- Three years later, 20 Flock cameras continue to roll in East Providence | EastBayRI.com - News, Opinion, Things to Do in the East Bay
- Mayor DaSilva says East Providence won't be cancelling Flock contract | EastBayRI.com - News, Opinion, Things to Do in the East Bay
- 2 new license plate readers reported around East Providence, RI
What you can do in East Providence
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 East Providence
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).