Flock & ALPR Cameras in James Island, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around James Island — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of James Island, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside James Island itself.
The rest sit in Charleston (15).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near James Island in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:19 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in James Island
The readers mapped around James Island break down as 12 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Daniel Ellis Drive — 4 readers
- River Road — 2 readers
- Fort Johnson Road — 2 readers
- Maybank Highway — 1 reader
- Fort Trenholm Road — 1 reader
- Folly Road — 1 reader
- Camp Road — 1 reader
- Harbor View Road — 1 reader
- Dills Bluff Road — 1 reader
- Bayview Farms Boulevard — 1 reader
James Island 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 4 traffic.
What’s watching James 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 James Island — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to James Island (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in James 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 James Island
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).