Flock & ALPR Cameras in Folly Beach, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Folly Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Folly Beach in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Folly Beach
The readers mapped around Folly Beach break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make, 1 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Folly Road — 3 readers
- East Arctic Avenue — 1 reader
Folly Beach SC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Folly Beach SC PD runs 2 cameras of its own, has logged 175 plate-database searches, has captured 99,742 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,296 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.
Folly Beach in the Charleston County picture
Charleston County has 92 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,300 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 414,711 residents and 4,387 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 28.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Folly Beach
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 Folly Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Folly Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Folly Beach
What you can do in Folly Beach
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.
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Cameras near Folly Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).