Flock & ALPR Cameras in Forest City, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Forest City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Forest City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 16 of them sit inside Forest City itself.
The rest sit in Ellenboro (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
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 Forest City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Forest City
The readers mapped around Forest City break down as 22 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Broadway Street — 3 readers
- Lowes Boulevard — 2 readers
- Plaza Drive — 2 readers
- Harris Henrietta Road — 2 readers
- Palms Way — 2 readers
- Forest City — 1 reader
- East Main Street — 1 reader
- US 74A — 1 reader
- Old Caroleen Road — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
- James A. Callahan Highway — 1 reader
- West Main Street — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Forest City — all on the live map above.
Forest City NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Forest City NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 65 other agencies.
Forest City in the Rutherford County picture
Rutherford County has 32 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #532 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 24.8% nationally. That’s across 64,850 residents and 1,971 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 33.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 22 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around Forest City, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Forest City. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Forest City
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 Forest City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Forest City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Forest City
What you can do in Forest City
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 Forest City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).