Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lincoln, Rhode Island
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Lincoln — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Paused
Lincoln is on the record here. Lincoln paused its Flock camera program while Foster is still considering canceling.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lincoln, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Lincoln itself.
The rest sit in Cumberland (2).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Cumberland Police (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 Lincoln in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lincoln
The readers mapped around Lincoln break down as 3 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Cumberland Police. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Mendon Road — 1 reader
- George Washington Highway — 1 reader
- Eddie Dowling Highway — 1 reader
Lincoln 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 2 traffic. Operators named on the record: Cumberland Police (1).
What’s watching Lincoln
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 Lincoln — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lincoln (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lincoln
What you can do in Lincoln
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 Lincoln
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).