Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hilton Head, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Hilton Head — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hilton Head, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Hilton Head itself.
The rest sit in Hilton Head Island (9).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Hilton Head in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 17:08 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hilton Head
The readers mapped around Hilton Head break down as 8 Flock Safety, 1 Rekor. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- William Hilton Parkway — 3 readers
- Squire Pope Road — 2 readers
- Wild Horse Road — 2 readers
- Hilton Head Island — 1 reader
- Beach City Road — 1 reader
Hilton Head 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 9 traffic.
What’s watching Hilton Head
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 — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hilton Head (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hilton Head
- Father arrested in Hilton Head missing child case. License plate cameras helped find him
- Hilton Head Hospital sees 3 stingray patients within one hour
- Shore fishers on Hilton Head pull up stingrays, strong feelings
- Bluffton PD adds AI monitoring system to prevent Flock camera misuse. Here are the details
What you can do in Hilton Head
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
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).