Flock Cameras in Massachusetts: Map, Locations & Count

Massachusetts records 1,189 mapped plate readers across 128 operators. The Home Depot runs the largest share at 5%, ahead of Norfolk County Sheriff's Office on 48. Every count on this page is measured inside the state line, so it's a floor for the state — not an estimate stitched together from overlapping city boxes. 251 of the 1,189 cameras carry no operator at all, so the operator shares above are shares of the attributed cameras. Since 5 October 2026 the in-state count moved from 1,187 to 1,189 (+2).

Boston has a full page with operator, vendor and direction breakdowns; the other metros are covered by the live map. These are bounding-box reads around each city, useful for comparing metros but not for adding together — boxes overlap and spill across state lines. The headline figure is counted inside the border and is the honest state total.

The top of the Massachusetts table is The Home Depot at 54. What matters for anyone reading the map is how long the tail is — 128 operators in total, so most cameras belong to agencies that individually run only a handful. Private businesses appear too: of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 20 are privately operated.

Names are drawn from OpenStreetMap tags, falling back to the jurisdiction the camera sits in (595 of 1,189 here). A camera's operator is not always the body that paid for it.

'Flock camera' is shorthand here, not the whole story: 90% of vendor-tagged cameras in Massachusetts are Flock Safety, and Axon Enterprise accounts for 28. 140 cameras are unattributed to any vendor.

The map knows which way 89% of Massachusetts's cameras face (1,062 of 1,189). Mounts, where recorded: pole (290), street lamp (52), wall (23), post (4).

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.