Flock & ALPR Cameras in Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around Woonsocket — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Woonsocket, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 19 of them sit inside Woonsocket itself.
The rest sit in North Smithfield (3).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (3). 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 Woonsocket in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Woonsocket
The readers mapped around Woonsocket break down as 22 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- South Main Street — 3 readers
- Dowling Village Boulevard — 3 readers
- Hamlet Avenue — 2 readers
- Social Street — 2 readers
- Cumberland Street — 1 reader
- Clinton Street — 1 reader
- Park Avenue — 1 reader
- Providence Street — 1 reader
- Harris Avenue — 1 reader
- Short Street — 1 reader
- Diamond Hill Road — 1 reader
- Mendon Road — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Woonsocket — all on the live map above.
Woonsocket RI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Woonsocket RI PD runs 15 cameras of its own, has logged 119 plate-database searches, has captured 213,497 vehicle records. Its network connects to 447 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Abington MA PD, Abington Township PA PD, Accomack County VA SO, Acushnet MA PD, Ahoskie NC PD, Albany City NY PD, Albany County NY SO, Alexandria VA PD.
Woonsocket 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 22 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (3).
What’s watching Woonsocket
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 Woonsocket — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Woonsocket (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Woonsocket
- Cranston, Pawtucket and Woonsocket police departments piloting Flock Safety license plate cameras
- Woonsocket and Pawtucket Install License Plate Recognition Cameras
- Woonsocket and Pawtucket Install License Plate Recognition Cameras | News Radio 920 AM & 104 . 7 FM
What you can do in Woonsocket
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 Woonsocket
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).