Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hillsborough, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Hillsborough — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Hillsborough is on the record here. The town of Hillsborough, North Carolina terminated their contract with Flock Safety following concerns about data privacy.
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- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Hillsborough NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hillsborough NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 66 other agencies.
Hillsborough in the Orange County picture
Orange County has 30 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,365 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 147,292 residents and 1,424 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 28.2% of counties nationally.
Camera activity around Hillsborough, last 30 days
2 removed in our hourly change log for Hillsborough. Latest change logged Aug 18, 2026.
What’s watching Hillsborough
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 Hillsborough — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hillsborough (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hillsborough
What you can do in Hillsborough
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 Hillsborough
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).