Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bessemer City, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Bessemer City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bessemer City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Bessemer City itself.
The rest sit in Gastonia (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Bessemer City
The readers mapped around Bessemer City break down as 11 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Bessemer City — 2 readers
- North 14th Street — 2 readers
- Gastonia Highway — 1 reader
- Costner School Road — 1 reader
- Edgewood Road — 1 reader
- NC 161 — 1 reader
- Puetts Chapel Road — 1 reader
- North 12th Street — 1 reader
- Sparrow Springs Road — 1 reader
Bessemer City NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bessemer City NC PD runs 9 cameras of its own, has logged 23 plate-database searches, has captured 73,358 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,801 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: 18th Judicial District Drug Task Force - TN PD, Abbeville SC PD, Aberdeen NC PD, Abington Township PA PD, Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO.
Bessemer City in the Gaston County picture
Gaston County has 89 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #772 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 231,485 residents and 2,085 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic.
What’s watching Bessemer City
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 Bessemer City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bessemer City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bessemer City
What you can do in Bessemer City
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 Bessemer City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).