Flock & ALPR Cameras in Spring Lake, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Spring Lake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Spring Lake in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 07:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Spring Lake
The readers mapped around Spring Lake break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Ray Road — 2 readers
- Overhills Road — 2 readers
- NC 210 — 1 reader
- Lakeview Drive — 1 reader
Spring Lake NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Spring Lake NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 2 other agencies.
Spring Lake in the Cumberland County picture
Cumberland County has 41 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,660 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 336,749 residents and 2,601 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 34.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
Camera activity around Spring Lake, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Spring Lake. Latest change logged Aug 18, 2026.
What’s watching Spring Lake
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 Spring Lake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Spring Lake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Spring Lake
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 Spring Lake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).