Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Hilton Head Island — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Hilton Head Island
The readers mapped around Hilton Head Island break down as 6 Flock Safety, 1 Verkada. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- William Hilton Parkway — 2 readers
- Hilton Head Island — 1 reader
- Marshland Road — 1 reader
- Mathews Drive — 1 reader
- Fox Grape Road — 1 reader
- Beaufort County — 1 reader
Hilton Head Island in the Beaufort County picture
Beaufort County has 77 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #726 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 192,123 residents and 2,344 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 19.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Hilton Head Island, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hilton Head Island. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Hilton Head Island
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 Hilton Head Island — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hilton Head Island (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hilton Head Island
- Father arrested in Hilton Head missing child case. License plate cameras helped find him
- Bluffton PD adds AI monitoring system to prevent Flock camera misuse. Here are the details
- ‘For the most part, we can track you all over the country.’ Beaufort Co. adds license plate cameras
What you can do in Hilton Head Island
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 Hilton Head Island
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).