Flock & ALPR Cameras in Saint Matthews, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Saint Matthews — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Saint Matthews, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Saint Matthews itself.
The rest sit in Cameron (1).
6 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Saint Matthews in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:35 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Saint Matthews
The readers mapped around Saint Matthews break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Colonel Thomson Highway — 2 readers
- I 26 — 2 readers
- Columbia Road — 1 reader
- Saint Matthews Road — 1 reader
- Cameron Road — 1 reader
Saint Matthews in the Calhoun County picture
Calhoun County has 13 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #129 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 6% nationally. That’s across 14,150 residents and 920 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 36% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
What’s watching Saint Matthews
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 Matthews — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Saint Matthews (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Saint Matthews
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 Saint Matthews
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).