Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hazelwood, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Hazelwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hazelwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Hazelwood itself.
The rest sit in Waynesville (2).
2 of them name an operator in the record: (Haywood Co. Sheriff) (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 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 Hazelwood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:04 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hazelwood
The readers mapped around Hazelwood break down as 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: (Haywood Co. Sheriff). The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- Great Smoky Mountains Expressway — 2 readers
- Little Lane — 1 reader
- Hyatt Creek Road — 1 reader
Hazelwood in the Haywood County picture
Haywood County has 22 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #878 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 62,432 residents and 2,041 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 41.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: (Haywood Co. Sheriff) (2).
What’s watching Hazelwood
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 Hazelwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hazelwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Hazelwood
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 Hazelwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).