Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Wrightsville Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Wrightsville Beach in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 10:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Wrightsville Beach
The readers mapped around Wrightsville Beach break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Causeway Drive — 2 readers
- Waynick Boulevard — 1 reader
- West Salisbury Street — 1 reader
Wrightsville Beach NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wrightsville Beach NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 35 other agencies.
Wrightsville Beach in the New Hanover County picture
New Hanover County has 50 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,326 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 231,214 residents and 1,325 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
What’s watching Wrightsville 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 Wrightsville Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wrightsville Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wrightsville Beach
- New Pivot Parking contract signed in Wrightsville Beach, citation incentives addressed
- The Outer Banks Voice - Former Wrightsville Beach Police Officer charged with misuse of License Plate Reader
- Former Wrightsville Beach officer charged with misusing license plate reader system
- Former Wrightsville Beach Police Officer charged with misuse of License Plate Reader
What you can do in Wrightsville 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 Wrightsville Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).