Flock & ALPR Cameras in Johnston, Rhode Island
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Johnston — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Johnston, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Johnston itself.
The rest sit in Cranston (10).
1 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (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 Johnston in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:02 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Johnston
The readers mapped around Johnston break down as 13 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Scituate Avenue — 3 readers
- Stonehill Drive — 2 readers
- Hartford Avenue — 1 reader
- Atwood Avenue — 1 reader
- Plainfield Circle — 1 reader
- Independence Way — 1 reader
- Hummingbird Lane — 1 reader
- Twin Birch Drive — 1 reader
- Woods Lane — 1 reader
- Sailor Way — 1 reader
- I 295 — 1 reader
Johnston RI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Johnston RI PD runs 5 cameras of its own, has logged 105 plate-database searches, has captured 303,659 vehicle records. Its network connects to 11 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Johnston 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 14 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Johnston, last 30 days
5 newly reported in our hourly change log for Johnston. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Johnston
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 Johnston — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Johnston (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Johnston
What you can do in Johnston
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 Johnston
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).