Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around Pawtucket — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 30 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Pawtucket, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 23 of them sit inside Pawtucket itself.
The rest sit in East Providence (5), Providence (2).
3 of them name an operator in the record: East Providence Police Department (2), Pawtucket Police Department (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 Pawtucket in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:12 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Pawtucket
The readers mapped around Pawtucket break down as 19 Flock Safety, 9 of unrecorded make, 2 Sensys. Named operators in the reports: East Providence Police Department, Pawtucket Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Smithfield Avenue — 3 readers
- Newport Avenue — 3 readers
- Central Avenue — 3 readers
- Pawtucket Avenue — 2 readers
- East Avenue — 2 readers
- Benefit Street — 2 readers
- Exchange Street — 2 readers
- Broad Street — 2 readers
- Division Street — 2 readers
- Mineral Spring Avenue — 1 reader
- Cedar Street — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Pawtucket — all on the live map above.
Pawtucket RI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Pawtucket RI PD runs 22 cameras of its own, has logged 757 plate-database searches, has captured 390,630 vehicle records. Its network connects to 15 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Pawtucket 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 28 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: East Providence Police Department (2), Pawtucket Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Pawtucket, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Pawtucket. Latest change logged Aug 20, 2026.
What’s watching Pawtucket
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 Pawtucket — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Pawtucket (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Pawtucket
- Flock camera review, Morley Field reopening among Greenman's first priorities as Pawtucket mayor next year
- Pawtucket Officer Who Fought Flock Cameras Resigned
- Residents Ask Pawtucket Council to End Plate Camera Deal
- Pawtucket mayoral candidates clash over Flock cameras, vacant Memorial Hospital during debate
What you can do in Pawtucket
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 Pawtucket
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).