Flock & ALPR Cameras in Columbia, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 39 automated license plate readers in and around Columbia — 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 Columbia, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 30 of them sit inside Columbia itself.
The rest sit in Cayce (1), West Columbia (1).
7 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 28 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Columbia
The readers mapped around Columbia break down as 31 Flock Safety, 2 Genetec, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Sunset Drive — 4 readers
- Medical Park Road — 4 readers
- William Earle Berne Beltway — 4 readers
- Harden Street — 3 readers
- Richland Medical Park Drive — 2 readers
- Richland County — 2 readers
- Saluda Avenue — 2 readers
- Alexander Road — 2 readers
- Wayne Street — 1 reader
- River Drive — 1 reader
- Shop Road — 1 reader
- Olympia Avenue — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Columbia — all on the live map above.
Columbia in the Richland County picture
Richland County has 94 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,287 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 418,725 residents and 3,315 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 22.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 33 traffic.
Camera activity around Columbia, last 30 days
10 newly reported in our hourly change log for Columbia. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Columbia
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 Columbia — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Columbia (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Columbia
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Columbia, SC
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Columbia, SC
- 5 new license plate readers reported around Columbia, SC
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Columbia, SC
What you can do in Columbia
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 Columbia
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).