Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hickory, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Hickory — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 6, 2026 On the agenda: Hickory 20261006 - City Council Agenda - October 6, 2026.pdf — flock camera (Oct 6)
- Sep 15, 2026 On the agenda: Hickory 20260915 - City Council Action Agenda - September 15, 2026.pdf — flock camera (Sep 15)
- Sep 15, 2026 On the agenda: Hickory 20260915 - City Council Minutes - September 15, 2026.pdf — flock camera (Sep 15)
- Jul 21, 2026 On the agenda: Hickory 20260721 - City Council Minutes - July 21, 2026.pdf — Flock camera (Jul 21)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Hickory in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hickory
The readers mapped around Hickory break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- 2nd Street Drive Northeast — 2 readers
- Startown Road — 1 reader
- 16th Avenue Northeast — 1 reader
- 2nd Street Northeast — 1 reader
- Lenoir Rhyne Boulevard Southeast — 1 reader
- US 70 Southwest — 1 reader
Hickory NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hickory NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 61 other agencies.
Hickory in the Catawba County picture
Catawba County has 51 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #980 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 162,051 residents and 1,994 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 24.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
Camera activity around Hickory, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for Hickory. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Hickory
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 Hickory — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hickory (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hickory
- On the agenda: Hickory 20261006 - City Council Agenda - October 6, 2026.pdf — flock camera (Oct 6)
- Hickory Police latest to activate Flock Transparency Portal, amid camera scrutiny
- Hickory Police Launches Flock Camera Transparency Portal
- Hickory police launches new transparency portal to provide public with information about Flock cameras
What you can do in Hickory
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 Hickory
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).