Flock & ALPR Cameras in Davidson, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Davidson — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Cameras Removed
Davidson is on the record here. Davidson County Flock license plate reader cameras were removed, prompting resident reaction.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Davidson, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Davidson itself.
The rest sit in Mooresville (3).
5 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Davidson in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:17 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Davidson
The readers mapped around Davidson break down as 16 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Main Street — 2 readers
- Langtree Road — 2 readers
- Robert Walker Drive — 2 readers
- Shearer Road — 2 readers
- Faith Road — 1 reader
- Mooresville Road — 1 reader
- Mecklenburg Highway — 1 reader
- Beaty Street — 1 reader
- Alcove Road — 1 reader
- East Campus Lane — 1 reader
- Bridges Farm Road — 1 reader
- Rocky River Road — 1 reader
Davidson NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Davidson NC PD runs 24 cameras of its own, has logged 42 plate-database searches, has captured 157,692 vehicle records. Its network connects to 99 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Davidson in the Mecklenburg County picture
Mecklenburg County has 285 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,176 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,130,906 residents and 3,682 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic.
Camera activity around Davidson, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Davidson. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Davidson
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 Davidson — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Davidson (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Davidson
- Davidson County residents react to Flock camera removal, data center developments continuing
- Davidson County commissioners vote to terminate Flock camera contract
- Davidson County commissioners vote against moratorium on new data center
- Davidson County commissioners vote to remove Flock cameras, end contract
What you can do in Davidson
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 Davidson
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).