Flock & ALPR Cameras in Gastonia, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 30 automated license plate readers in and around Gastonia — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 22 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 19 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 18 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Gastonia
The readers mapped around Gastonia break down as 23 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- North Broad Street — 2 readers
- South Marietta Street — 2 readers
- Linwood Road — 2 readers
- Osceola Street — 1 reader
- South Broad Street — 1 reader
- Thomas Street — 1 reader
- Spencer Avenue — 1 reader
- Carolina Avenue — 1 reader
- North Myrtle School Road — 1 reader
- Kirkwood Circle — 1 reader
- South New Hope Road — 1 reader
- East 2nd Avenue — 1 reader
+ 9 more streets and roads mapped around Gastonia — all on the live map above.
Gastonia NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Gastonia NC PD runs 572 cameras of its own, has logged 982 plate-database searches, has captured 286,253 vehicle records. Its network connects to 130 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Gastonia in the Gaston County picture
Gaston County has 89 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #772 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 231,485 residents and 2,085 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 22 traffic.
Camera activity around Gastonia, last 30 days
10 newly reported in our hourly change log for Gastonia. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Gastonia
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 Gastonia — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Gastonia (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Gastonia
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Gastonia, NC
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Gastonia, NC
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Gastonia, NC
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Gastonia, NC
What you can do in Gastonia
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.
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Cameras near Gastonia
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).