Flock & ALPR Cameras in Oak Grove, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Oak Grove — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Oak Grove
The readers mapped around Oak Grove break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Old State Road — 2 readers
- Columbia Road — 2 readers
- I 26 — 2 readers
- SC 6 — 1 reader
Oak Grove in the Lexington County picture
Lexington County has 56 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,435 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 300,370 residents and 2,388 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 26% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
What’s watching Oak Grove
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 Oak Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Oak Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Oak Grove
What you can do in Oak Grove
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 Oak Grove
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).