Flock & ALPR Cameras in Butner, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Butner — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Butner in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Butner
The readers mapped around Butner break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Butner Creedmoor Road — 2 readers
- Gate #2 Road — 1 reader
- Central Avenue — 1 reader
- Gate 1 Road — 1 reader
- East Lyon Station Road — 1 reader
Butner NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Butner NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 70 other agencies.
Butner in the Granville County picture
Granville County has 27 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #638 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 61,439 residents and 1,454 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 30.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
Camera activity around Butner, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Butner. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.
What’s watching Butner
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 Butner — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Butner (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Butner
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 Butner
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).