Flock & ALPR Cameras in Stanley, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Stanley — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Stanley in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Stanley
The readers mapped around Stanley break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Mauney Road — 1 reader
- Dallas Stanley Highway — 1 reader
- Legion Drive — 1 reader
- Charles Raper Jonas Highway — 1 reader
- Long Circle — 1 reader
- NC 27 — 1 reader
Stanley NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Stanley NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 57 other agencies.
Stanley in the Gaston County picture
Gaston County has 89 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #772 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 231,485 residents and 2,085 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
What’s watching Stanley
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 Stanley — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Stanley (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Stanley
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 Stanley
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).