Flock & ALPR Cameras in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Myrtle Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Myrtle Beach in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Myrtle Beach
The readers mapped around Myrtle Beach break down as 11 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Seaboard Street — 3 readers
- Porcher Drive — 3 readers
- Center South — 2 readers
- South Kings Highway — 1 reader
- Commons Avenue — 1 reader
- Ocean Boulevard — 1 reader
Myrtle Beach in the Horry County picture
Horry County has 80 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,321 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 368,937 residents and 3,567 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 26.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around Myrtle Beach, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Myrtle Beach. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching Myrtle Beach
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 Myrtle Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Myrtle Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Myrtle Beach
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- 4 new license plate readers reported around Myrtle Beach, SC
What you can do in Myrtle Beach
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 Myrtle Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).