Flock & ALPR Cameras in Nelson, Georgia
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Nelson — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Cameras Removed
Nelson is on the record here. The Nelson City Council voted unanimously on July 13, 2026 to remove the city's four Flock license plate reader cameras, after Councilman Nathan Hamby raised Fourth Amendment concerns. The contract ran roughly $10,000 a year for five years. Nelson is the first government in Cherokee County, Georgia to end a Flock contract.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Nelson, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Nelson itself.
The rest sit in Jasper (2), Ball Ground (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (4). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
11 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Jul 13, 2026 Nelson City Council votes to remove Flock cameras
- Jul 6, 2026 On the agenda: Nelson Agenda — FLOCK Camera (Jul 6)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Nelson in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Nelson
The readers mapped around Nelson break down as 14 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Fincher Road — 2 readers
- APD Highway — 2 readers
- Ball Ground Highway — 2 readers
- Henderson Mountain Road — 1 reader
- Waleska Highway — 1 reader
- East Church Street — 1 reader
- Steve Tate Road — 1 reader
- Yellow Creek Road — 1 reader
- Highway 53 West — 1 reader
- A P D Highway — 1 reader
- Canton Road — 1 reader
- Pea Ridge Road — 1 reader
City of Nelson (GA) and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, City of Nelson (GA) appears in the sharing network with connections to 2 other agencies.
Nelson in the Pickens County picture
Pickens County has 26 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #210 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 9.8% nationally. That’s across 34,197 residents and 761 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 18.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (4).
Camera activity around Nelson, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Nelson. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.
What’s watching Nelson
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 Nelson — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Nelson (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Nelson
- Nelson City Council votes to remove Flock cameras
- On the agenda: Nelson Agenda — FLOCK Camera (Jul 6)
- Nelson, GA: Cameras Removed
- New chapter on the network: DeFlock Cherokee (Cherokee County, Georgia)
What you can do in Nelson
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.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Nelson
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).