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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Saint Andrews, South Carolina

Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Saint Andrews — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Saint Andrews, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Saint Andrews itself.

The rest sit in Columbia (4), West Columbia (1).

12 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

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

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15
Reported cameras nearby
#41
of 202 South Carolina cities tracked
0.7%
of South Carolina’s reported cameras
Live camera map 15 reported cameras around Saint Andrews, 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 Saint Andrews

No new reports near Saint Andrews 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 Saint Andrews

The readers mapped around Saint Andrews break down as 14 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Richland County — 4 readers
  • Long Creek Drive — 3 readers
  • Haviland Circle — 2 readers
  • Broad River Road — 2 readers
  • Hulon Drive — 2 readers
  • Bush River Road — 2 readers
  • Zimalcrest Drive — 1 reader
  • Holly Ridge Lane — 1 reader

Saint Andrews in the Richland County picture

Richland County has 94 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,287 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 418,725 residents and 3,315 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 22.5% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic.

Camera activity around Saint Andrews, last 30 days

4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Saint Andrews. Latest change logged Aug 14, 2026.

What’s watching Saint Andrews

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

The latest around Saint Andrews

What you can do in Saint Andrews

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 Saint Andrews

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