Flock & ALPR Cameras in Nashville, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Nashville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Nashville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Nashville itself.
The rest sit in Rocky Mount (1).
4 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 2 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Nashville
The readers mapped around Nashville break down as 6 Flock Safety, 3 Axis Communications. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- NC 58 — 1 reader
- Eastern Avenue — 1 reader
- South 1st Street — 1 reader
- Oak Level Road — 1 reader
- West Washington Street — 1 reader
- South Eastpointe Avenue — 1 reader
- Rocky Mount — 1 reader
- Sunset Avenue — 1 reader
- I 95 — 1 reader
Nashville NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Nashville NC PD runs 8 cameras of its own, has logged 54 plate-database searches, has captured 110,116 vehicle records. Its network connects to 209 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Ahoskie NC PD, Alexander County NC SO, Angier NC PD, Apex NC PD, App State University NC PD, Appalachian Regional Healthcare System NC PD, Asheville NC PD, Avery County NC SO.
Nashville in the Nash County picture
Nash County has 25 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,139 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 95,451 residents and 1,689 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 35.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic.
What’s watching Nashville
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 Nashville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Nashville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Nashville
What you can do in Nashville
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 Nashville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).