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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Newport East, Rhode Island

Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Newport East — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Newport East, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Newport East itself.

The rest sit in Newport (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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1
Reported cameras nearby
#31
of 36 Rhode Island cities tracked
0.3%
of Rhode Island’s reported cameras
Live camera map 1 reported cameras around Newport East, Rhode Island
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Newport East

No new reports near Newport East in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:07 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Newport East

The readers mapped around Newport East break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Mar 2026.

  • Admiral Kalbfus Road — 1 reader

Newport East in the Newport County picture

Newport County has 8 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,793 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 85,095 residents and 644 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 39% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.

What’s watching Newport East

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 Newport East — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Newport East (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Newport East

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.

Cameras near Newport East

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).