Flock & ALPR Cameras in Smithfield, Rhode Island
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Smithfield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Smithfield
The readers mapped around Smithfield break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jun 2026.
- Douglas Pike — 1 reader
Smithfield RI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Smithfield RI PD runs 2 cameras of its own, has logged 55 plate-database searches, has captured 194,549 vehicle records. Its network connects to 19 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Smithfield 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 1 traffic.
What’s watching Smithfield
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 Smithfield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Smithfield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Smithfield
- Anthony Soly: By what legal process did North Smithfield approve the installation of Flock cameras?
- North Smithfield Flock Camera Approval Questioned
- Gibbs says no to North Smithfield Flock cameras
- North Smithfield Official Approved Plate-Reader Cameras
What you can do in Smithfield
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 Smithfield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).