Flock & ALPR Cameras in Southern Pines, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Southern Pines — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Southern Pines, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Southern Pines itself.
The rest sit in Aberdeen (3).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Souther Pines Police Department (2), Lowe's (1), Southern Pines Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Southern Pines
The readers mapped around Southern Pines break down as 13 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Souther Pines Police Department, Southern Pines Police Department, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- US 15;US 501;NC 211 — 4 readers
- West Morganton Road — 2 readers
- West Pennsylvania Avenue — 1 reader
- East Indiana Avenue — 1 reader
- Murray Hill Road — 1 reader
- Bethesda Road — 1 reader
- North Sandhills Boulevard — 1 reader
- Midland Road — 1 reader
- Clark Road — 1 reader
Southern Pines NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Southern Pines NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 53 other agencies.
Southern Pines in the Moore County picture
Moore County has 51 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #525 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 24.5% nationally. That’s across 102,840 residents and 2,091 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 25.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic. Operators named on the record: Souther Pines Police Department (2), Southern Pines Police Department (1), Lowe's (1).
What’s watching Southern Pines
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 Southern Pines — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Southern Pines (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Southern Pines
What you can do in Southern Pines
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 Southern Pines
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).