Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wingate, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Wingate — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Wingate
The readers mapped around Wingate break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Pageland Highway — 2 readers
- Andrew Jackson Highway — 2 readers
- North Main Street — 1 reader
- South Main Street — 1 reader
- Ansonville Road — 1 reader
Wingate NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wingate NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 28 other agencies.
Wingate in the Union County picture
Union County has 148 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #370 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 17.3% nationally. That’s across 244,975 residents and 2,078 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
What’s watching Wingate
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 Wingate — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wingate (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Wingate
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 Wingate
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).