Flock & ALPR Cameras in Kings Mountain, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Kings Mountain — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Kings Mountain in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:11 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Kings Mountain
The readers mapped around Kings Mountain break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- York Road — 1 reader
- Linwood Road — 1 reader
- South Battleground Avenue — 1 reader
- Shelby Road — 1 reader
- US 74 BUS — 1 reader
Kings Mountain NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Kings Mountain NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 63 other agencies.
Kings Mountain in the Cleveland County picture
Cleveland County has 23 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,259 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 100,170 residents and 1,913 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 39.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Kings Mountain, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Kings Mountain. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.
What’s watching Kings Mountain
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 Kings Mountain — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Kings Mountain (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Kings Mountain
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 Kings Mountain
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).