Flock & ALPR Cameras in Northlakes, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Northlakes — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Northlakes, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Northlakes itself.
The rest sit in Granite Falls (3), Hickory (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Northlakes in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Northlakes
The readers mapped around Northlakes break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Grace Chapel Road — 2 readers
- River Bend Drive — 2 readers
- Limbaugh Lane — 1 reader
- Winwood Circle — 1 reader
- Granite Falls — 1 reader
Northlakes in the Caldwell County picture
Caldwell County has 49 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #366 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 17.1% nationally. That’s across 80,618 residents and 1,545 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 20.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
Camera activity around Northlakes, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Northlakes. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.
What’s watching Northlakes
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 Northlakes — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Northlakes (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Northlakes
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 Northlakes
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).