Flock & ALPR Cameras in Smithfield, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Smithfield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Smithfield, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Smithfield itself.
The rest sit in Selma (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Smithfield in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Smithfield
The readers mapped around Smithfield break down as 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- North Brightleaf Boulevard — 2 readers
- Outlet Center Drive — 2 readers
- US 70 BUS — 1 reader
- South Brightleaf Boulevard — 1 reader
- NC 210 — 1 reader
- East Market Street — 1 reader
Smithfield NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Smithfield NC PD runs 8 cameras of its own, has captured 285,882 vehicle records. Its network connects to 56 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Smithfield in the Johnston County picture
Johnston County has 43 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,425 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 226,623 residents and 2,473 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 31.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
What’s watching Smithfield
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 Smithfield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Smithfield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Smithfield
What you can do in Smithfield
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 Smithfield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).