Flock & ALPR Cameras in North Charleston, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around North Charleston — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of North Charleston, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside North Charleston 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 North Charleston in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in North Charleston
The readers mapped around North Charleston break down as 14 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make, 1 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Mark Clark Expressway — 3 readers
- Cosgrove Avenue — 2 readers
- Saint Thomas Island Drive — 2 readers
- Hazelwood Drive — 2 readers
- Fashion Avenue — 1 reader
- North Charleston — 1 reader
- Sam Rittenberg Boulevard — 1 reader
- Ashley River Road — 1 reader
- Island Park Drive — 1 reader
- Barfield Street — 1 reader
- Fairchild Street — 1 reader
- Robert Daniel Drive — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around North Charleston — all on the live map above.
North Charleston SC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, North Charleston SC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 41 other agencies.
North Charleston 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 13 traffic.
Camera activity around North Charleston, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for North Charleston. Latest change logged Aug 16, 2026.
What’s watching North Charleston
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 North Charleston — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to North Charleston (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around North Charleston
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What you can do in North Charleston
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 North Charleston
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).