Flock & ALPR Cameras in Blowing Rock, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Blowing Rock — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Blowing Rock
The readers mapped around Blowing Rock break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- James E. Holshouser Jr. Highway — 4 readers
- Valley Boulevard — 1 reader
- Blowing Rock Boulevard — 1 reader
Blowing Rock NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Blowing Rock NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 25 other agencies.
Blowing Rock in the Watauga County picture
Watauga County has 27 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #531 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 24.8% nationally. That’s across 54,607 residents and 1,541 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 31.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
What’s watching Blowing Rock
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 Blowing Rock — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Blowing Rock (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Blowing Rock
- Blowing Rock police chief details staffing, speeding data, equipment at community meeting
- Blowing Rock police chief details staffing, speeding data, equipment at community meeting
What you can do in Blowing Rock
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 Blowing Rock
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).