Flock & ALPR Cameras in Saint Stephens, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Saint Stephens — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Saint Stephens, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Saint Stephens itself.
The rest sit in Hickory (1).
3 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 Saint Stephens in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Saint Stephens
The readers mapped around Saint Stephens break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- Springs Road Northeast — 1 reader
- 28th Street Northeast — 1 reader
- 24th Street Northeast — 1 reader
- Springs Road — 1 reader
Saint Stephens in the Catawba County picture
Catawba County has 51 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #980 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 162,051 residents and 1,994 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 24.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Saint Stephens
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 Saint Stephens — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Saint Stephens (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Saint Stephens
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 Saint Stephens
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).