Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cary, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 42 automated license plate readers in and around Cary — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 42 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cary, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 33 of them sit inside Cary itself.
The rest sit in Raleigh (9).
4 of them name an operator in the record: WakeMed (3), Flock Safety (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Cary in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Cary
The readers mapped around Cary break down as 17 Axis Communications, 16 Flock Safety, 6 Leonardo. Named operators in the reports: WakeMed, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Wake Medical Drive — 4 readers
- North Harrison Avenue — 4 readers
- North Academy Street — 3 readers
- South Harrison Avenue — 3 readers
- Centerview Drive — 3 readers
- Walnut Street — 2 readers
- Meeting Street — 2 readers
- East Chatham Street — 2 readers
- West Chatham Street — 2 readers
- Grove Barton Road — 1 reader
- Clyden Cove — 1 reader
- Poyner Road — 1 reader
+ 14 more streets and roads mapped around Cary — all on the live map above.
Cary NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cary NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 2 other agencies.
Cary in the Wake County picture
Wake County has 301 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,140 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,151,009 residents and 4,649 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 36 traffic. Operators named on the record: WakeMed (3), Flock Safety (1).
Camera activity around Cary, last 30 days
7 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Cary. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Cary
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 Cary — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cary (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cary
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Cary, NC
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Cary, NC
What you can do in Cary
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 Cary
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).