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Cameras in Providence, RI
90 mapped plate readers and a speed and red light camera program in Providence.
Plate readers © OpenStreetMap contributors · © OpenMapTiles
Providence, by camera type.
Providence: 90 plate readers mapped. Nearby: Cranston 30 and Pawtucket 27.
Speed cameras in Providence
Providence runs a speed and red light camera program (running, as of Aug 2025), not yet on this map.
7 speed or red light cameras are on the map, counted apart from official lists.
- Speed and red light cameras · Running (as of Aug 2025) Public list City of Providence ↗
The law, in short:
R.I. Gen. Laws 31-41.3.
Red light cameras in Providence
The same program covers red light cameras, not yet on this map.
License plate readers in Providence
90 plate readers are on the map in Providence, and 88 of them carry the Flock Safety tag. Most don't say who runs them.
First-mapped dates here run from Jan 11, 2025 to Oct 27, 2026. 54 of the 90 were first mapped in 2026, with 19 in August alone.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists Providence Police Department and Rhode Island College Police Department as agencies that use plate readers.
Who can search plate reads in Providence
9 agencies can search reads from the Providence Police Department’s plate readers, by its posted sharing list (Oct 14, 2026). Its portal says it keeps each read for 30 days.
Providence Police Department
- Agencies on its posted sharing list
- 9
- Keeps each read for
- 30 days
- Plate readers its portal lists
- 60
- Agencies whose reads it can search
- 15
Its transparency portal, as of Oct 13, 2026 · See its sharing lists, as of Oct 14, 2026
Get one summary email a month on new plate readers in Providence
Portal figures and sharing lists: EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0), from Flock Safety transparency portals.
Traffic cameras in Providence
No traffic camera feed is listed for Providence yet.
Camera tickets in Providence
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Know when cameras in Providence change.
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- New cameras mapped or reported near you
- What plate readers keep, and who runs them
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156,883 cameras listed or mapped 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.
- City of Providence: speed and red light camera program, running, as of Aug 2025
- OpenStreetMap contributors: plate readers, speed and red light cameras, 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
- US Census Bureau: city boundary (cartographic file 2025)
Plate reader points are mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers (data as of November 7, 2026).
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