Flock & ALPR Cameras in Boone, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 23 automated license plate readers in and around Boone — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 22 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Boone
The readers mapped around Boone break down as 19 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West King Street — 5 readers
- Blowing Rock Road — 4 readers
- Rivers Street — 2 readers
- Deerfield Road — 1 reader
- NC 194 — 1 reader
- US 321;US 421;NC 194 — 1 reader
- NC Highway 105 Bypass — 1 reader
- Town of Boone Greenway Trail — 1 reader
- US 321;US 421 — 1 reader
- Stadium Drive — 1 reader
- East King Street — 1 reader
Boone NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Boone NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 31 other agencies.
Boone 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 17 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (3).
Camera activity around Boone, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 7 removed in our hourly change log for Boone. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Boone
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 Boone — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Boone (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Boone
What you can do in Boone
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 Boone
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).