Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cheraw, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 32 automated license plate readers in and around Cheraw — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Cheraw in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Cheraw
The readers mapped around Cheraw break down as 23 of unrecorded make, 9 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- State Road — 4 readers
- West Market Street — 3 readers
- Church Street — 3 readers
- US 52;SC 9 Truck — 2 readers
- US 1;SC 9 — 2 readers
- Chesterfield Highway — 2 readers
- Cash Road — 2 readers
- West Greene Street — 2 readers
- Kershaw Street — 2 readers
- Murray Drive — 2 readers
- Covington Road — 2 readers
- 3rd Street — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Cheraw — all on the live map above.
Cheraw SC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cheraw SC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 57 other agencies.
Cheraw in the Chesterfield County picture
Chesterfield County has 35 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #188 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 8.8% nationally. That’s across 43,575 residents and 2,188 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 33.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 13 street, 9 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (16).
What’s watching Cheraw
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 Cheraw — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cheraw (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Cheraw
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 Cheraw
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).