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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Volunteers have reported 26 automated license plate readers in and around Mount Pleasant — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 30 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mount Pleasant, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 25 of them sit inside Mount Pleasant itself.

The rest sit in Charleston (3).

14 of them name an operator in the record: Mount Pleasant Police Department (11), Lowe's (3). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.

2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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26
Reported cameras nearby
#16
of 202 South Carolina cities tracked
1.2%
of South Carolina’s reported cameras
The local record — what was proposed here

Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.

Live camera map 26 reported cameras around Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Mount Pleasant
+0 this week +1 last 30 days
  • Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Mount Pleasant

The readers mapped around Mount Pleasant break down as 27 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Mount Pleasant Police Department, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Mark Clark Expressway — 4 readers
  • Venning Road — 3 readers
  • Hwy 41 — 3 readers
  • Mazzy Lane — 3 readers
  • SC 703 — 2 readers
  • US 17 — 2 readers
  • SC 41 — 2 readers
  • Coleman Boulevard — 2 readers
  • North Highway 17 — 1 reader
  • Wingo Way — 1 reader
  • Mathis Ferry Road — 1 reader
  • Dupre Lane — 1 reader

+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Mount Pleasant — all on the live map above.

Mount Pleasant SC PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mount Pleasant SC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 52 other agencies.

Mount Pleasant 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 18 traffic. Operators named on the record: Mount Pleasant Police Department (11), Lowe's (3).

Camera activity around Mount Pleasant, last 30 days

2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Mount Pleasant. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.

What’s watching Mount Pleasant

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 Mount Pleasant — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mount Pleasant (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Mount Pleasant

What you can do in Mount Pleasant

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.

Cameras near Mount Pleasant

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).