Flock & ALPR Cameras in Garner, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 50 automated license plate readers in and around Garner — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 50 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Garner, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 39 of them sit inside Garner itself.
The rest sit in Raleigh (4).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (3), Flock Safety (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
7 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Garner
The readers mapped around Garner break down as 42 Flock Safety, 3 Axis Communications, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Goldsboro Highway — 5 readers
- Shenstone Boulevard — 3 readers
- Cabela Drive — 2 readers
- Pearl Road — 2 readers
- Avery Street — 2 readers
- Fayetteville Road — 2 readers
- Education Road — 2 readers
- Chandler Ridge Circle — 2 readers
- Timber Drive — 2 readers
- Garner Station Boulevard — 2 readers
- Lake Benson Park Road — 1 reader
- Purser Drive — 1 reader
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Garner — all on the live map above.
Garner NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Garner NC PD runs 20 cameras of its own, has logged 221 plate-database searches, has captured 206,010 vehicle records. Its network connects to 58 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Garner 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 30 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (3), Flock Safety (2).
Camera activity around Garner, last 30 days
8 newly reported in our hourly change log for Garner. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Garner
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 Garner — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Garner (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Garner
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Garner, NC
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Garner, NC
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Garner, NC
What you can do in Garner
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 Garner
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).