Flock & ALPR Cameras in Red Oak, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Red Oak — 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 Red Oak, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Red Oak itself.
The rest sit in Rocky Mount (2).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Red Oak
The readers mapped around Red Oak break down as 4 Flock Safety, 1 Axis Communications. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Red Oak Battleboro Road — 1 reader
- I 95 — 1 reader
- North Old Carriage Road — 1 reader
- Red Oak Boulevard — 1 reader
- NC 56 Highway East — 1 reader
Red Oak in the Nash County picture
Nash County has 25 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,139 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 95,451 residents and 1,689 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 35.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
Camera activity around Red Oak, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Red Oak. Latest change logged Aug 26, 2026.
What’s watching Red Oak
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 Red Oak — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Red Oak (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Red Oak
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.
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Cameras near Red Oak
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).