Flock & ALPR Cameras in Abbeville, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Abbeville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Abbeville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 07:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Abbeville
The readers mapped around Abbeville break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- North Main Street — 1 reader
- West Greenwood Street — 1 reader
- East Greenwood Street — 1 reader
- Highway 28 — 1 reader
- Cambridge Street — 1 reader
Abbeville SC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Abbeville SC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 50 other agencies.
Abbeville in the Abbeville County picture
Abbeville County has 4 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,513 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 24,352 residents and 1,020 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 66.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Abbeville
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 Abbeville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Abbeville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Abbeville
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 Abbeville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).