Flock & ALPR Cameras in Oakboro, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Oakboro — 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 Oakboro, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Oakboro itself.
The rest sit in Red Cross (1).
2 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 Oakboro in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Oakboro
The readers mapped around Oakboro break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- NC 205 — 3 readers
- Silver Road — 1 reader
- Liberty Hill Church Road — 1 reader
- Big Lick Road — 1 reader
- NC 138 — 1 reader
- Saint Martin Road — 1 reader
- NC 742 — 1 reader
Oakboro NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Oakboro NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 30 other agencies.
Oakboro in the Stanly County picture
Stanly County has 14 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,306 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 63,557 residents and 1,291 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 41.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic.
What’s watching Oakboro
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 Oakboro — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Oakboro (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Oakboro
What you can do in Oakboro
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 Oakboro
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).