Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hudson, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Hudson — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hudson, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Hudson itself.
The rest sit in Lenoir (3), Sawmills (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Hudson in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hudson
The readers mapped around Hudson break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Norwood Street Southwest — 2 readers
- Main Street — 2 readers
- Charles White Lane — 1 reader
- Cajah Mountain Road — 1 reader
Hudson NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hudson NC PD runs 2 cameras of its own, has logged 27 plate-database searches, has captured 34,186 vehicle records. Its network connects to 129 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alexander County NC SO, Apex NC PD, App State University NC PD, Appalachian Regional Healthcare System NC PD, Avery County NC SO, Banner Elk NC PD, Belmont NC PD, Black Mountain NC PD.
Hudson in the Caldwell County picture
Caldwell County has 49 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #366 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 17.1% nationally. That’s across 80,618 residents and 1,545 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 20.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
Camera activity around Hudson, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hudson. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.
What’s watching Hudson
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 Hudson — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hudson (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Hudson
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 Hudson
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).