Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ladson, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Ladson — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ladson, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Ladson itself.
The rest sit in North Charleston (17), Summerville (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 5 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Oct 5 Genetec camera newly reported
- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 5 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Ladson
The readers mapped around Ladson break down as 15 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Weber Boulevard — 4 readers
- Ladson Road — 2 readers
- Wescott Boulevard — 1 reader
- Dorchester Road — 1 reader
- US 78 — 1 reader
- Ashley Phosphate Road — 1 reader
- Lincoln Patriot Boulevard — 1 reader
- Patriot Boulevard — 1 reader
- Summner Street — 1 reader
- North Charleston — 1 reader
- Berkeley County — 1 reader
Ladson 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 15 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (2).
Camera activity around Ladson, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Ladson. Latest change logged Aug 18, 2026.
What’s watching Ladson
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 Ladson — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ladson (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Ladson
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Ladson, SC
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Ladson, SC
What you can do in Ladson
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 Ladson
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).