Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hardwick, Georgia
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Hardwick — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hardwick, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Hardwick itself.
The rest sit in Milledgeville (4).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Baldwin County Sheriff's Office (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
15 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 23 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Hardwick
The readers mapped around Hardwick break down as 15 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Baldwin County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- US 441;GA 29 — 5 readers
- Fall Line Freeway — 2 readers
- Kings Road — 2 readers
- Vinson Highway — 2 readers
- Sparta Highway — 1 reader
- GA 272 — 1 reader
- Deepstep Road — 1 reader
- Gordon Highway — 1 reader
- GA 24 — 1 reader
- Laboratory Road — 1 reader
- Swint Avenue — 1 reader
Hardwick in the Baldwin County picture
Baldwin County has 17 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #759 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 43,669 residents and 685 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 24.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 18 traffic. Operators named on the record: Baldwin County Sheriff's Office (1).
What’s watching Hardwick
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 Hardwick — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hardwick (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hardwick
What you can do in Hardwick
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.
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Cameras near Hardwick
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).