Flock & ALPR Cameras in Charleston, New York
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Charleston — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Charleston, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Charleston itself.
The rest sit in New York (11).
5 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (3), Port of authority of New York and New Jersey (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Charleston in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:18 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Charleston
The readers mapped around Charleston break down as 8 Flock Safety, 2 Kapsch, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot, Port of authority of New York and New Jersey. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Bricktown Way — 3 readers
- Tyrellan Avenue — 3 readers
- Outerbridge Crossing — 2 readers
- Veterans Road West — 2 readers
- Page Avenue — 1 reader
Charleston in the Richmond County picture
Richmond County has 60 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,659 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 492,734 residents and 500 road miles. By road density that is 0.12 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (3), Port of authority of New York and New Jersey (2).
Camera activity around Charleston, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Charleston. Latest change logged Aug 25, 2026.
What’s watching Charleston
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 Charleston — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Charleston (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Charleston
What you can do in Charleston
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 Charleston
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).