Flock & ALPR Cameras in Franklin, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Franklin — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Franklin in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 18:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Franklin
The readers mapped around Franklin break down as 21 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Franklin Plaza — 4 readers
- Sylva Road — 3 readers
- Highlands Road — 3 readers
- Murphy Road — 2 readers
- Georgia Road — 1 reader
- Wells Grove Road — 1 reader
- Sylva Highway — 1 reader
- Old Murphy Road — 1 reader
- Belden Circle — 1 reader
- Wide Horizon Drive — 1 reader
- East Main Street — 1 reader
- Macon County — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Franklin — all on the live map above.
Franklin in the Macon County picture
Macon County has 11 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,038 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 37,533 residents and 2,275 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 61.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 21 traffic.
What’s watching Franklin
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 Franklin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Franklin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Franklin
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 Franklin
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).