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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pendleton, South Carolina

Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Pendleton — 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 Pendleton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Pendleton itself.

The rest sit in Clemson (1).

3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

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

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Reported cameras nearby
#74
of 202 South Carolina cities tracked
0.4%
of South Carolina’s reported cameras
Live camera map 9 reported cameras around Pendleton, 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 Pendleton
+0 this week +4 last 30 days
  • Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
  • Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
  • Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
  • Sep 22 Flock Safety camera newly reported

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

Where the cameras are in Pendleton

The readers mapped around Pendleton break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.

  • Anderson Highway — 1 reader
  • US 76;SC 28 — 1 reader
  • Pendleton Road — 1 reader
  • South Mechanic Street — 1 reader
  • Technology Drive — 1 reader

Pendleton SC PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Pendleton SC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 53 other agencies.

Pendleton 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 5 traffic.

What’s watching Pendleton

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

The latest around Pendleton

What you can do in Pendleton

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 Pendleton

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