Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hartsville, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 44 automated license plate readers in and around Hartsville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Hartsville
The readers mapped around Hartsville break down as 27 Axis Communications, 13 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Bell Avenue — 5 readers
- Hartsville — 3 readers
- South 4th Street — 3 readers
- South 6th Street — 3 readers
- Sumter Street — 3 readers
- Marion Avenue — 3 readers
- West Carolina Avenue — 2 readers
- South 5th Street — 2 readers
- Campbell Street — 2 readers
- East Home Avenue — 2 readers
- West Washington Street — 2 readers
- James Avenue — 2 readers
+ 11 more streets and roads mapped around Hartsville — all on the live map above.
Hartsville SC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hartsville SC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 119 other agencies.
Hartsville in the Darlington County picture
Darlington County has 17 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,112 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 62,754 residents and 968 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 31.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 43 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (2).
Camera activity around Hartsville, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hartsville. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Hartsville
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 Hartsville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hartsville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Hartsville
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 Hartsville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).