Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ranlo, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Ranlo — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ranlo, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Ranlo itself.
The rest sit in Gastonia (13).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Ranlo in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Ranlo
The readers mapped around Ranlo break down as 19 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Gaston Mall Drive — 3 readers
- East Franklin Boulevard — 2 readers
- Gastonia — 2 readers
- Spencer Mountain Road — 2 readers
- Boulder Court — 2 readers
- Cox Road — 1 reader
- McNeil Street — 1 reader
- Remount Road — 1 reader
- Court Drive — 1 reader
- North Modena Street — 1 reader
- Central Avenue — 1 reader
- Park Drive — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Ranlo — all on the live map above.
Ranlo NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Ranlo NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 39 other agencies.
Ranlo in the Gaston County picture
Gaston County has 89 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #772 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 231,485 residents and 2,085 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic.
Camera activity around Ranlo, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Ranlo. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Ranlo
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 Ranlo — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ranlo (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Ranlo
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Ranlo, NC
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Ranlo, NC
What you can do in Ranlo
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 Ranlo
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).