Flock & ALPR Cameras in Maiden, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Maiden — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Maiden, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Maiden itself.
The rest sit in Lincolnton (1).
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Maiden in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Maiden
The readers mapped around Maiden break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Maiden Highway — 2 readers
- West Main Street — 2 readers
- East Main Street — 1 reader
- US 321 Business — 1 reader
- NC 16 — 1 reader
- Startown Road — 1 reader
Maiden NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Maiden NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 36 other agencies.
Maiden 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 6 traffic.
What’s watching Maiden
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 Maiden — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Maiden (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Maiden
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 Maiden
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).