Flock & ALPR Cameras in Charleston, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Charleston — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Charleston
The readers mapped around Charleston break down as 11 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Saint Andrews Boulevard — 5 readers
- Savannah Highway — 3 readers
- St. Philip Street — 1 reader
- Romney Street — 1 reader
- King Street — 1 reader
- Morrison Drive — 1 reader
Charleston SC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Charleston SC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 28 other agencies.
Charleston in the Charleston County picture
Charleston County has 92 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,300 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 414,711 residents and 4,387 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 28.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Charleston, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Charleston. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Charleston
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 Charleston — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Charleston (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Charleston
- Our View: South Carolina needs to get better handle on Big Brother’s license plate cameras
- 2 new license plate readers reported around North Charleston, SC
- North Charleston, Stingrays nominated for Emmy Awards
- Tickets available for Stingrays' first two Round 1 home games at North Charleston Coliseum
What you can do in Charleston
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 Charleston
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).