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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Kannapolis, North Carolina

Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Kannapolis — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Kannapolis, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Kannapolis itself.

The rest sit in Concord (3).

1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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11
Reported cameras nearby
#93
of 375 North Carolina cities tracked
0.3%
of North Carolina’s reported cameras
Live camera map 11 reported cameras around Kannapolis, North Carolina
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Kannapolis

No new reports near Kannapolis in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:18 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Kannapolis

The readers mapped around Kannapolis break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in May 2026.

  • Cloverleaf Parkway — 3 readers
  • Old Salisbury-Concord Road — 2 readers
  • Jaycee Road — 2 readers
  • Dale Earnhardt Boulevard — 1 reader
  • Hilton Lake Road — 1 reader

Kannapolis in the Cabarrus County picture

Cabarrus County has 49 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,338 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 231,262 residents and 1,603 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic.

What’s watching Kannapolis

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 Kannapolis — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Kannapolis (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Kannapolis

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.

Cameras near Kannapolis

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).