Flock & ALPR Cameras in Woodfin, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Woodfin — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Woodfin
The readers mapped around Woodfin break down as 2 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Apr 2025.
- New Leicester Highway — 2 readers
Woodfin in the Buncombe County picture
Buncombe County has 73 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,115 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 271,790 residents and 3,290 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 27.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Woodfin
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 Woodfin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Woodfin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Woodfin
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 Woodfin
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).