Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lenoir, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around Lenoir — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 25 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lenoir, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 18 of them sit inside Lenoir itself.
The rest sit in Cedar Rock (4).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Simon Property Group (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 15 License plate reader newly reported
- Sep 15 License plate reader newly reported
- Sep 15 License plate reader newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Lenoir
The readers mapped around Lenoir break down as 20 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions, 1 Neology, Inc.. Named operators in the reports: Simon Property Group. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Harper Avenue Northwest — 3 readers
- Lenoir — 3 readers
- College Avenue Southwest — 3 readers
- Pennell Street Northeast — 2 readers
- NC 268 — 2 readers
- Greenhaven Drive Northwest — 2 readers
- Blowing Rock Boulevard — 2 readers
- Wilkesboro Boulevard — 1 reader
- Creekway Drive Northwest — 1 reader
- Collettsville Road — 1 reader
- Wilkesboro Boulevard Southeast — 1 reader
- Hospital Avenue — 1 reader
Lenoir NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lenoir NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 69 other agencies.
Lenoir 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 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: Simon Property Group (1).
What’s watching Lenoir
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 Lenoir — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lenoir (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lenoir
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Lenoir, NC
- Lenoir County Sheriff's Office says 16 Flock cameras remain in use across county
- SHERIFF: Lenoir County Flock camera system helps find missing Wilkes County man
- Police find missing Lenoir City 13-year-old in North Carolina using Meta glasses video and Flock cameras
What you can do in Lenoir
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 Lenoir
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).