Flock & ALPR Cameras in Raleigh, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 31 automated license plate readers in and around Raleigh — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 23 Axis Communications camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Raleigh
The readers mapped around Raleigh break down as 25 Flock Safety, 3 Leonardo, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Sunnybrook Road — 4 readers
- Thomas Bradshaw Freeway — 4 readers
- Appliance Court — 2 readers
- Willow Oak Road — 2 readers
- Calvary Drive — 2 readers
- Capital Boulevard — 2 readers
- Green Road — 2 readers
- West Campus Drive — 1 reader
- East Campus Drive — 1 reader
- South Dawson Street — 1 reader
- Westinghouse Boulevard — 1 reader
- East Martin Street — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Raleigh — all on the live map above.
Raleigh NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Raleigh NC PD runs 32 cameras of its own, has logged 1,438 plate-database searches, has captured 963,456 vehicle records. Its network connects to 142 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Raleigh in the Wake County picture
Wake County has 301 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,140 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,151,009 residents and 4,649 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 25 traffic, 1 parking.
Camera activity around Raleigh, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Raleigh. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.
What’s watching Raleigh
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 Raleigh — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Raleigh (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Raleigh
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Raleigh, NC
- Private Eyes: How we tracked the spread of license plate readers across North Carolina
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near West Raleigh, NC
- 5 new license plate readers reported around West Raleigh, NC
What you can do in Raleigh
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 Raleigh
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).