Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Sumter, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around South Sumter — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Sumter, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside South Sumter itself.
The rest sit in Sumter (2).
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in South Sumter
The readers mapped around South Sumter break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Pocalla Road — 1 reader
- Manning Avenue — 1 reader
- South Lafayette Drive — 1 reader
- Mooneyham Road — 1 reader
South Sumter in the Sumter County picture
Sumter County has 52 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #524 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 24.5% nationally. That’s across 104,853 residents and 2,171 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 25.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
What’s watching South Sumter
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 South Sumter — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Sumter (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in South Sumter
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 South Sumter
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).