Flock & ALPR Cameras in Elgin, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Elgin — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Elgin, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Elgin itself.
The rest sit in Lugoff (1).
14 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 3 Axis Communications camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Elgin
The readers mapped around Elgin break down as 19 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- County Line Road — 2 readers
- White Pond Road — 2 readers
- Bridgecreek Drive — 2 readers
- Liberty Ridge Drive — 2 readers
- Summit Parkway — 1 reader
- Ridgeway Road — 1 reader
- Sessions Road — 1 reader
- Wildwood Lane — 1 reader
- Old Somerby Way — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
- Emanuel Street — 1 reader
- Clemson Road — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Elgin — all on the live map above.
Elgin SC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Elgin SC PD runs 2 cameras of its own, has logged 22 plate-database searches, has captured 67,616 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,566 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: 18th Judicial District Drug Task Force - TN PD, Abbeville SC PD, Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO, Adrian MI PD, Ahoskie NC PD.
Elgin in the Kershaw County picture
Kershaw County has 21 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #983 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 66,924 residents and 1,825 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 40.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic, 1 street.
Camera activity around Elgin, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Elgin. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Elgin
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 Elgin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Elgin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Elgin
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 Elgin
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).