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Connecticut has 1,052 mapped plate readers. 659 carry the Flock Safety tag. 342 of 659 say who runs them.
Milford has the most (43), then Norwich (28) and West Hartford (22). The first Flock-tagged one was mapped Nov 27, 2024. A plate reader keeps a record of each car that passes.
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Flock cameras in Connecticut by city
A city links to its own page once enough readers are mapped there.
Plate readers mapped in Connecticut each month
Plate readers of any maker added to the map each month, not only Flock-tagged ones. Lighter bars are estimates from the first-mapped dates of current points.
CamsAhead started its daily change log on October 22, 2026. How the map changed.
Flock-tagged readers first mapped each month
Each row counts the Flock-tagged readers first mapped that month, newest first. Months with none are left out. Each one carries the date it was first mapped.
| Month | First mapped that month | Top cities |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | 13 | 3 in Milford and 2 in New Britain |
| Sep 2026 | 24 | 3 in Bridgeport and 3 in Southport |
| Aug 2026 | 52 | 4 in Milford and 2 in Guilford Center |
| Jul 2026 | 55 | 9 in Milford and 3 in Bristol |
| Jun 2026 | 50 | 5 in New Haven and 5 in Norwich |
| May 2026 | 27 | 6 in Middletown and 3 in Milford |
| Apr 2026 | 28 | 2 in Manchester and 2 in Milford |
| Mar 2026 | 40 | 10 in West Hartford and 3 in Hartford |
| Feb 2026 | 36 | 3 in New Canaan and 2 in Danbury |
| Jan 2026 | 30 | 3 in Newington and 1 in Glastonbury Center |
| Dec 2025 | 47 | 7 in Mashantucket and 4 in Norwalk |
| Nov 2025 | 84 | 15 in Norwich and 5 in Bristol |
Who runs the Flock cameras in Connecticut
342 of 659 say who runs them. The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists 28 agencies in Connecticut that use plate readers.
- Private operators, not named 40
- Norwich Police Department 25
- Milford Police Department 24
- Southington Police Department 24
- Glastonbury Police Department 17
- West Hartford Police Department 17
- Fairfield Police Department 16
- New Canaan Police Department 13
- Newtown Police Department 11
- Cheshire Police Department 9
Plate reader law in Connecticut
| Topic | Connecticut |
|---|---|
| Status | Law |
| Law | Public Act 26-14 (SB 397, 2026), § 13 |
| What it does | From October 1, 2026, lets public agencies and their vendors run plate readers only for listed purposes, caps retention, limits sharing, bars uses such as immigration enforcement, and makes the data confidential. |
| How long it is kept | 21 days, unless kept under a warrant or court order or another listed exception (§ 13(b)(2)(A)) |
| Who it can be shared with | Only with a Connecticut public agency; New York, Rhode Island or Massachusetts law enforcement or a joint task force that signs a written declaration; any other agency with a judicially issued probable cause warrant or a Terrorist Screening Database match; or the registered owner (§ 13(d)(6)) |
| Public record? | No: 'confidential and shall not be deemed a public record' under the FOIA (§ 13(e)(1)); camera locations (unless DHS funding required secrecy) and audit and access logs with plate data redacted are public records (§ 13(e)(2)) |
| Owner access | Yes: 'an individual requesting data regarding a motor vehicle registered in such individual's name'; every owner, lessor and regular user must join the request (§ 13(d)(6)(D)) |
| Public records law | Connecticut Freedom of Information Act, Conn. Gen. Stat. § 1-200 et seq. |
| Checked |
See Connecticut plate reader law next to the other states.
Flock cameras in Connecticut: questions
How many Flock cameras are in Connecticut?
659 plate readers tagged Flock Safety are on the map in Connecticut, as of November 7, 2026. The real number may be higher or lower: the map shows only the cameras mapped so far.
Which cities in Connecticut have the most Flock cameras?
By mapped count: Milford (43), Norwich (28) and West Hartford (22). The city list on this page shows each city with a Flock-tagged reader.
Is each mapped camera still there?
Not always. A point shows where someone mapped a camera. 130 of the 659 carry a date when a volunteer last checked them on the ground.
Connecticut's plate reader data
From OpenStreetMap, under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. A free copy goes to anyone who asks: how it is made and how to ask.
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1,106 cameras listed or mapped in Connecticut so far.
Sources and updates
How this page was made: CamsAhead writes each page type once, then fills it with this place's data from the sources below.
- OpenStreetMap contributors: plate readers, data as of Nov 7, 2026; ODbL 1.0
- EFF Atlas of Surveillance: agencies that use plate readers, data as of Aug 2026; CC BY 4.0
- Public Act 26-14 (SB 397, 2026), § 13: plate reader law, checked Oct 25, 2026
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Open Government Guide: public records law, checked Oct 25, 2026
Plate reader points are mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers (data as of November 7, 2026).
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