Flock & ALPR Cameras in Locust, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Locust — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Locust, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Locust itself.
The rest sit in Red Cross (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 Locust in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Locust
The readers mapped around Locust break down as 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Main Street — 3 readers
- South Central Avenue — 2 readers
- East Main Street — 2 readers
- NC 200 — 1 reader
- North Central Avenue — 1 reader
- NC 24;NC 27 — 1 reader
Locust NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Locust NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 2 other agencies.
Locust in the Stanly County picture
Stanly County has 14 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,306 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 63,557 residents and 1,291 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 41.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic.
Camera activity around Locust, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Locust. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.
What’s watching Locust
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 Locust — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Locust (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Locust
- Flock Safety camera system helping Locust Grove PD
- Flock Safety camera system helping Locust Grove police
What you can do in Locust
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 Locust
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).