Flock & ALPR Cameras in Forest Acres, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 38 automated license plate readers in and around Forest Acres — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 38 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Forest Acres, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 17 of them sit inside Forest Acres itself.
The rest sit in Columbia (21).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (4). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 14 Flock Safety 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 Forest Acres
The readers mapped around Forest Acres break down as 29 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions, 1 Neology, Inc.. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Columbia — 4 readers
- Forest Drive — 4 readers
- Garners Ferry Road — 2 readers
- Two Notch Road — 2 readers
- Bethel Church Road — 1 reader
- Verner Street — 1 reader
- Madison Road — 1 reader
- Atlas Road — 1 reader
- North Beltline Boulevard — 1 reader
- Briarfield Road — 1 reader
- Forest Acres — 1 reader
- McDuffie Street — 1 reader
+ 14 more streets and roads mapped around Forest Acres — all on the live map above.
Forest Acres 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 34 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (4).
Camera activity around Forest Acres, last 30 days
8 newly reported in our hourly change log for Forest Acres. Latest change logged Aug 14, 2026.
What’s watching Forest Acres
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 Forest Acres — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Forest Acres (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Forest Acres
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Forest Acres, SC
- 8 new license plate readers reported around Forest Acres, SC
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Forest Acres, SC
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Forest Acres, SC
What you can do in Forest Acres
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 Forest Acres
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).