Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pineville, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 101 automated license plate readers in and around Pineville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 108 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Pineville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 18 of them sit inside Pineville itself.
The rest sit in Charlotte (65).
7 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (7). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
25 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 15 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 15 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 14 new license plate readers just reported around Pineville, NC. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Pineville
Where the cameras are in Pineville
The readers mapped around Pineville break down as 87 Flock Safety, 6 of unrecorded make, 1 Axon Enterprise. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Whitehall Commons Center Drive — 6 readers
- McMullen Creek Parkway — 5 readers
- Grand Palisades Parkway — 5 readers
- Shelburne Farms Drive — 4 readers
- Ballantyne Crossing Avenue — 4 readers
- Woodside Falls Road — 3 readers
- Charlotte — 3 readers
- Mid Street — 3 readers
- Snug Harbor Road — 3 readers
- Centrum Parkway — 2 readers
- Costigan Lane — 2 readers
- Cardinal Woods Drive — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Pineville — all on the live map above.
Pineville NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Pineville NC PD runs 8 cameras of its own, has logged 296 plate-database searches, has captured 341,227 vehicle records. Its network connects to 71 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Pineville 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 80 traffic, 4 street, 3 town. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (7).
Camera activity around Pineville, last 30 days
8 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Pineville. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Pineville
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 Pineville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Pineville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Pineville
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Pineville, NC
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Pineville, NC
- 14 new license plate readers reported around Pineville, NC
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Pineville, NC
What you can do in Pineville
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 Pineville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).