Flock & ALPR Cameras in Carrboro, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Carrboro — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Carrboro in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 19, 01:50 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Carrboro
The readers mapped around Carrboro break down as 2 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Aug 2026.
- NC 54 — 1 reader
- Old Fayetteville Road — 1 reader
Carrboro in the Orange County picture
Orange County has 30 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,365 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 147,292 residents and 1,424 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 28.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Carrboro
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 Carrboro — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Carrboro (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Carrboro
What you can do in Carrboro
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 Carrboro
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).