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Vermont · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Manchester Center, Vermont

Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Manchester Center — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Manchester Center, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Manchester Center itself.

The rest sit in Manchester (5).

5 of them name an operator in the record: Manchester Police Department (5). 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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Reported cameras nearby
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of 9 Vermont cities tracked
16.7%
of Vermont’s reported cameras
Live camera map 5 reported cameras around Manchester Center, Vermont
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 Manchester Center

No new reports near Manchester Center in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 11, 02:50 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Manchester Center

The readers mapped around Manchester Center break down as 5 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Manchester Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Feb 2026.

  • Main Street — 2 readers
  • Bonnet Street — 1 reader
  • Depot Street — 1 reader
  • Manchester — 1 reader

Manchester Center in the Bennington County picture

Bennington County has 5 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,616 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 37,312 residents and 1,147 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 63.6% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic. Operators named on the record: Manchester Police Department (5).

What’s watching Manchester Center

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

What you can do in Manchester Center

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 Manchester Center

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