Flock & ALPR Cameras in Matthews, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Matthews — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Matthews, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 21 of them sit inside Matthews itself.
The rest sit in Mint Hill (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 25 Turing AI camera newly reported
- Sep 14 Turing AI camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Matthews
The readers mapped around Matthews break down as 19 Flock Safety, 1 Turing SkyShield. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Matthews Township Parkway — 5 readers
- East Independence Boulevard — 4 readers
- Matthews-Mint Hill Road — 2 readers
- Brigman Road — 1 reader
- Pineville-Matthews Road — 1 reader
- Paces Avenue — 1 reader
- Mint Lake Drive — 1 reader
- Pleasant Plains Road — 1 reader
- Governor James G Martin Freeway — 1 reader
- South Trade Street — 1 reader
- Sam Newell Road — 1 reader
- Monroe Road — 1 reader
Matthews NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Matthews NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 68 other agencies.
Matthews in the Mecklenburg County picture
Mecklenburg County has 285 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,176 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,130,906 residents and 3,682 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic, 1 entrance.
Camera activity around Matthews, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Matthews. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Matthews
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 Matthews — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Matthews (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Matthews
- Residents raise privacy concerns over potential surveillance camera expansion in Matthews
- St. Matthews police launching 3-part effort to help solve crimes
- St. Matthews installs floc cameras to help solve crimes
- Crews installing Flock Safety Cameras in St. Matthews neighborhood
What you can do in Matthews
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 Matthews
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).