Flock & ALPR Cameras in Coats, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Coats — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Coats in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 07:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Coats
The readers mapped around Coats break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- Old Fairground Road — 1 reader
- Silas Hayes Road — 1 reader
Coats in the Harnett County picture
Harnett County has 47 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #902 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 136,503 residents and 1,942 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 25.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Coats
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 Coats — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Coats (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Coats
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 Coats
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).