Flock & ALPR Cameras in Southern Shores, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Southern Shores — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Southern Shores, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Southern Shores itself.
The rest sit in Duck (3).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Southern Shores in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 07:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Southern Shores
The readers mapped around Southern Shores break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Duck Road — 2 readers
- Ocean Boulevard — 2 readers
- Jay Crest Road — 1 reader
- Chicahauk Trail — 1 reader
- Thirteenth Avenue — 1 reader
- East Dogwood Trail — 1 reader
- Sea Oats Trail — 1 reader
Southern Shores NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Southern Shores NC PD runs 12 cameras of its own, has captured 76,399 vehicle records. Its network connects to 44 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Southern Shores in the Dare County picture
Dare County has 50 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #56 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 2.6% nationally. That’s across 37,534 residents and 945 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 11.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic.
What’s watching Southern Shores
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 Shores — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Southern Shores (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Southern Shores
What you can do in Southern Shores
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 Shores
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).