Flock & ALPR Cameras in East Sumter, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around East Sumter — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of East Sumter, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside East Sumter itself.
The rest sit in Mayesville (12).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near East Sumter in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:35 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in East Sumter
The readers mapped around East Sumter break down as 8 Motorola Solutions, 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Florence Highway — 3 readers
- North Lafayette Street — 3 readers
- South Main Street East — 2 readers
- Mayesville Rail Trail — 2 readers
- US 378 — 1 reader
- Avenue A — 1 reader
- West Sumter Street — 1 reader
- East Sumter Street — 1 reader
- Myrtle Beach Highway — 1 reader
East Sumter in the Sumter County picture
Sumter County has 52 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #524 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 24.5% nationally. That’s across 104,853 residents and 2,171 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 25.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic.
Camera activity around East Sumter, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for East Sumter. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching East Sumter
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 East Sumter — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to East Sumter (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in East Sumter
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 East Sumter
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).