Flock & ALPR Cameras in Kinston, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Kinston — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Kinston in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:34 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Kinston
The readers mapped around Kinston break down as 9 Flock Safety, 3 Axis Communications, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- US 70 — 3 readers
- Old Pink Hill Road — 2 readers
- US 258 — 1 reader
- Hull Road — 1 reader
- NC 58 — 1 reader
- Pauls Path Road — 1 reader
- NC 55 — 1 reader
- Richlands Road — 1 reader
- Trenton Road — 1 reader
- East New Bern Road — 1 reader
Kinston NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Kinston NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 40 other agencies.
Kinston in the Lenoir County picture
Lenoir County has 19 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #896 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 54,917 residents and 1,247 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 34.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
What’s watching Kinston
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 Kinston — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Kinston (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Kinston
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Kinston, NC
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy now available at UNC Health Lenoir Wound and Infusion Center
What you can do in Kinston
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.
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Cameras near Kinston
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).