Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sunset Beach, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Sunset Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sunset Beach, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Sunset Beach itself.
The rest sit in Ocean Isle Beach (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Sunset Beach in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Sunset Beach
The readers mapped around Sunset Beach break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Sunset Boulevard North — 2 readers
- Causeway Drive — 2 readers
- Shoreline Drive West — 1 reader
- Clubhouse Road — 1 reader
Sunset Beach NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Sunset Beach NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 25 other agencies.
Sunset Beach in the Brunswick County picture
Brunswick County has 22 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,564 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 145,889 residents and 2,693 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 48.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
What’s watching Sunset Beach
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 Sunset Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sunset Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Sunset Beach
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 Sunset Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).