Flock & ALPR Cameras in Dentsville, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Dentsville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Dentsville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Dentsville itself.
The rest sit in Forest Acres (4), Columbia (1).
12 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Dentsville
The readers mapped around Dentsville break down as 14 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Sams Crossing Drive — 3 readers
- Two Notch Road — 2 readers
- Fire Lane Road — 2 readers
- Pinestraw Road — 2 readers
- O'Neil Court — 1 reader
- Spring Lake Road — 1 reader
- North Trenholm Road — 1 reader
- Rabon Road — 1 reader
- Hunt Club Road — 1 reader
- Decker Boulevard — 1 reader
- Farrow Road — 1 reader
Dentsville 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 12 traffic, 4 parking.
What’s watching Dentsville
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 Dentsville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Dentsville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Dentsville
What you can do in Dentsville
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 Dentsville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).