Flock & ALPR Cameras in Chapin, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Chapin — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Chapin, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Chapin itself.
The rest sit in Pomaria (2), Little Mountain (1).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 17, 2026 In the minutes: Chapin meeting, Flock camera (Sep 17)
- Sep 15, 2026 In the minutes: Chapin meeting, Flock camera (Sep 15)
- Aug 18, 2026 Chapin — meeting Aug 18, 2026
- Aug 18, 2026 In the minutes: Chapin meeting, Flock camera (Aug 18)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Chapin in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Chapin
The readers mapped around Chapin break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Columbia Avenue — 2 readers
- Chapin Road — 2 readers
- Highway 176 — 2 readers
- US 176 — 1 reader
- Lake Estate Drive — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
Chapin SC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Chapin SC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 9 other agencies.
Chapin in the Lexington County picture
Lexington County has 56 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,435 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 300,370 residents and 2,388 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 26% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic.
Camera activity around Chapin, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Chapin. Latest change logged Aug 25, 2026.
What’s watching Chapin
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 Chapin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Chapin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Chapin
- In the minutes: Chapin meeting, Flock camera (Sep 17)
- In the minutes: Chapin meeting, Flock camera (Sep 15)
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Chapin, SC
- In the minutes: Chapin meeting, Flock camera (Aug 18)
What you can do in Chapin
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.
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Cameras near Chapin
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).