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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Simpsonville, South Carolina

Volunteers have reported 28 automated license plate readers in and around Simpsonville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 28 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Simpsonville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 18 of them sit inside Simpsonville itself.

The rest sit in Fountain Inn (1).

9 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

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

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28
Reported cameras nearby
#15
of 202 South Carolina cities tracked
1.3%
of South Carolina’s reported cameras
Live camera map 28 reported cameras around Simpsonville, 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 Simpsonville

No new reports near Simpsonville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Simpsonville

The readers mapped around Simpsonville break down as 28 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Grandview Drive — 8 readers
  • West Georgia Road — 4 readers
  • Fairview Road — 3 readers
  • Dennis Waldrop Way — 2 readers
  • Southeast Main Street — 1 reader
  • Northeast Main Street — 1 reader
  • East Curtis Street — 1 reader
  • Liberty Walk Lane — 1 reader
  • Elmhaven Drive — 1 reader
  • Adrian Way — 1 reader
  • Camberwell Road — 1 reader
  • Davenport Road — 1 reader

+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Simpsonville — all on the live map above.

Simpsonville SC PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Simpsonville SC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 54 other agencies.

Simpsonville in the Greenville County picture

Greenville County has 151 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,080 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 537,575 residents and 3,686 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.3% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 20 traffic.

What’s watching Simpsonville

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

What you can do in Simpsonville

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 Simpsonville

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