Flock & ALPR Cameras in Northlake, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Northlake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Northlake, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Northlake itself.
The rest sit in Anderson (8).
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.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Northlake
The readers mapped around Northlake break down as 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- The Electric City Trail - Clemson Blvd Segment — 2 readers
- Collett Drive — 1 reader
- Brown Road — 1 reader
- Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard — 1 reader
- East West Parkway — 1 reader
- Forest Hill Drive — 1 reader
- Jim Ed Rice Parkway — 1 reader
Northlake in the Anderson County picture
Anderson County has 29 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,592 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 207,218 residents and 3,349 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 47% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (2).
Camera activity around Northlake, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Northlake. Latest change logged Aug 18, 2026.
What’s watching Northlake
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 Northlake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Northlake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Northlake
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 Northlake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).