No active weather alerts Subscribe free

From the Insurance City

Hartford Daily Brief

The Hartford news you'd otherwise miss.

🗺️ Where the plate readers are

Mapped locations of automated license-plate reader (ALPR) and police camera hardware in Connecticut, from the crowd-sourced DeFlock / DontGetFlocked public dataset (OSM-derived, fetched 2026-08-28). In Hartford, the map tells a story the headlines missed: the city evaluated Flock — then walked away. The cameras you see around the city limits are mostly the neighbors'.

1170cameras mapped in CT
18inside Hartford city limits
723Flock-brand devices
97police agencies tagged
Source: data.dontgetflocked.com (public), fetched 2026-08-28. Crowd-sourced — treat as indicative, not official.

Legend

  • Flock Safety
  • Axis Communications
  • Rekor
  • Motorola Solutions
  • Other / unassigned vendor
  • Operator not tagged (often private sites — Lowe's, Home Depot, HOAs)

Circle = fixed camera/reader. Hartford's evaluated Flock microphones (~741 Raven audio sensors) are not in this dataset — it maps ALPR/video hardware only.

Hartford context — what the dots do and don't show

  • Inside Hartford: the dataset tags 7 cameras to Hartford PD (Axis + one Bosch — part of the ~1,350-camera Axis network feeding the Capital City Command Center) plus 2 Rekor ALPRs. The 15 untagged Flock-brand devices inside the city line are the disputed ones — the hardware HPD tested under a no-cost MOU in 2025–26, and/or private-site cameras.
  • The ring: West Hartford (21 mapped, "here to stay" per town officials, Aug 2026), Windsor (paused, then town council voted to shut off July 2026), Glastonbury (17), Newington, Wethersfield, Southington (25), Manchester and East Hartford (paused Aug 2026) surround the capital.
  • Not mapped: Flock's gunshot-detection microphones, drone bases, and most private cameras that haven't been crowd-reported. The true statewide count is almost certainly higher than the ~1,170 points shown.