Flock & ALPR Cameras in Advance, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Advance — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Advance
The readers mapped around Advance break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jul 2026.
- US 64 — 1 reader
Advance in the Davie County picture
Davie County has 20 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #609 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 43,526 residents and 866 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 26.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Advance
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 Advance — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Advance (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Advance
What you can do in Advance
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 Advance
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).