Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bluffton, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 39 automated license plate readers in and around Bluffton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 39 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bluffton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 30 of them sit inside Bluffton itself.
The rest sit in Hardeeville (2).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (1), The Home Depot (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
7 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 Bluffton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:18 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Bluffton
The readers mapped around Bluffton break down as 37 Flock Safety, 2 Rekor. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Buckwalter Parkway — 6 readers
- Bluffton Parkway — 5 readers
- Buck Island Road — 4 readers
- Fording Island Road — 3 readers
- Buckwalter Towne Boulevard — 2 readers
- Gateway Village Road — 2 readers
- Sun City Boulevard — 2 readers
- Pine Ridge Drive — 2 readers
- Pinellas Drive — 2 readers
- Lake Linden Drive — 2 readers
- Foreman Hill Road — 1 reader
- Okatie Highway — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Bluffton — all on the live map above.
Bluffton SC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bluffton SC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 25 other agencies.
Bluffton in the Beaufort County picture
Beaufort County has 77 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #726 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 192,123 residents and 2,344 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 19.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 38 traffic, 1 playground. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1), The Home Depot (1).
What’s watching Bluffton
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 Bluffton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bluffton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bluffton
What you can do in Bluffton
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 Bluffton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).