Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wake Forest, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 47 automated license plate readers in and around Wake Forest — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 47 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wake Forest, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 29 of them sit inside Wake Forest itself.
The rest sit in Raleigh (3).
12 of them name an operator in the record: Wake Forest Police Department (10), Lowe's (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
15 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Wake Forest in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 22:20 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
📷 38 new license plate readers just reported around Wake Forest, NC. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #WakeForest
Where the cameras are in Wake Forest
The readers mapped around Wake Forest break down as 46 Flock Safety, 1 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Wake Forest Police Department, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Allen Road — 4 readers
- North White Street — 4 readers
- Traditions Grande Boulevard — 3 readers
- East Juniper Avenue — 3 readers
- Retail Drive — 2 readers
- South Franklin Street — 2 readers
- Galaxy Drive — 2 readers
- Harris Road — 2 readers
- Ligon Mill Road — 2 readers
- Sandybrook Lane — 2 readers
- Falls of Neuse Road — 2 readers
- Dunn Creek Greenway — 2 readers
+ 17 more streets and roads mapped around Wake Forest — all on the live map above.
Wake Forest NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wake Forest NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 63 other agencies.
Wake Forest in the Wake County picture
Wake County has 301 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,140 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,151,009 residents and 4,649 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 47 traffic. Operators named on the record: Wake Forest Police Department (10), Lowe's (2).
Camera activity around Wake Forest, last 30 days
10 newly reported, 52 removed in our hourly change log for Wake Forest. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Wake Forest
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 Wake Forest — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wake Forest (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wake Forest
- 38 license plate readers reported removed near Wake Forest, NC
- 11 license plate readers reported removed near Wake Forest, NC
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Wake Forest, NC
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Wake Forest, NC
What you can do in Wake Forest
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 Wake Forest
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).