Flock & ALPR Cameras in Asheville, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 33 automated license plate readers in and around Asheville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Asheville is on the record here. Asheville City Council voted 5–2 on August 25, 2026 to authorize the city manager to terminate the city’s Flock contract, suspend access, searching, and sharing of Flock data, and remove the 11 city-operated automated license-plate readers. WLOS and Carolina Public Press covered the vote. HOA, school, and other Buncombe County Flock cameras outside the city contract remain. Axon plate readers remain under discussion as a possible replacement.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 33 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Asheville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 32 of them sit inside Asheville itself.
The rest sit in Woodfin (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (1). 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 Asheville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:34 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Asheville
The readers mapped around Asheville break down as 35 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Asheville Police Department, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Tunnel Road — 6 readers
- Swannanoa River Road — 4 readers
- Patton Avenue — 4 readers
- W T Weaver Boulevard — 2 readers
- Amboy Road — 2 readers
- Glenns Creek Greenway — 2 readers
- Lee Garden Lane — 2 readers
- Edgewood Road — 1 reader
- South Tunnel Road — 1 reader
- Hanover Street — 1 reader
- South French Broad Avenue — 1 reader
- Clingman Avenue — 1 reader
+ 11 more streets and roads mapped around Asheville — all on the live map above.
Asheville NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Asheville NC PD has captured 352,228 vehicle records. Its network connects to 82 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Asheville in the Buncombe County picture
Buncombe County has 73 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,115 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 271,790 residents and 3,290 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 27.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic. Operators named on the record: Asheville Police Department (2), Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around Asheville, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Asheville. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Asheville
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 Asheville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Asheville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Asheville
- INTERVIEW: Asheville's new police chief, Jackie Stepp, outlines priorities
- 5 license plate readers reported removed near Asheville, NC
- Asheville mayor calls to end city's Flock contract, remove cameras after backlash
- Asheville Cuts Flock Contract, But Data Fears Don’t Vanish
What you can do in Asheville
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 Asheville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).