Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lowell, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Lowell — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lowell, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Lowell itself.
The rest sit in Gastonia (9).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Lowell in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lowell
The readers mapped around Lowell break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Franklin Boulevard — 2 readers
- Senator Marshall Arthur Rauch Highway — 2 readers
- Armstrong Park Road — 1 reader
- Redbud Drive — 1 reader
- Bordeaux Avenue — 1 reader
- Hoffman Road — 1 reader
- East Hudson Boulevard — 1 reader
Lowell in the Gaston County picture
Gaston County has 89 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #772 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 231,485 residents and 2,085 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
Camera activity around Lowell, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Lowell. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching Lowell
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 Lowell — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lowell (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Lowell
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 Lowell
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).