Flock & ALPR Cameras in Chester, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Chester — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Chester in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:34 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Chester
The readers mapped around Chester break down as 18 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Lowrys Highway — 2 readers
- Dawson Drive — 2 readers
- J A Cochran Bypass — 2 readers
- Columbia Street — 2 readers
- Pinckney Street — 2 readers
- Pinckney Road — 1 reader
- West End Street — 1 reader
- Chester High School Road — 1 reader
- Columbia Road — 1 reader
- Loomis Street — 1 reader
- Gadsden Street — 1 reader
- Center Road — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Chester — all on the live map above.
Chester SC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Chester SC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 11 other agencies.
Chester in the Chester County picture
Chester County has 33 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #95 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 4.4% nationally. That’s across 32,177 residents and 1,514 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 27.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 18 traffic.
Camera activity around Chester, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Chester. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Chester
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 Chester — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Chester (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Chester
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Chester, SC
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Chester, SC
- Flock safety cameras vandalized in Chesterfield County, police say
What you can do in Chester
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 Chester
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).