Flock & ALPR Cameras in Longview, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Longview — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Longview, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Longview itself.
The rest sit in Hickory (3).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 3 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Longview
The readers mapped around Longview break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 2nd Avenue Northwest — 1 reader
- US 70 Southwest — 1 reader
Longview in the Catawba County picture
Catawba County has 51 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #980 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 162,051 residents and 1,994 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 24.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
Camera activity around Longview, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Longview. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.
What’s watching Longview
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 Longview — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Longview (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Longview
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 Longview
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).