Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sumter, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 54 automated license plate readers in and around Sumter — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Sumter
The readers mapped around Sumter break down as 36 Flock Safety, 1 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Alice Drive — 7 readers
- Broad Street — 5 readers
- Rast Street — 2 readers
- Oswego Highway — 2 readers
- Miller Road — 2 readers
- McCrays Mill Road — 2 readers
- West Liberty Street — 1 reader
- East Fulton Street — 1 reader
- Palmetto Parkway — 1 reader
- Theatre Drive — 1 reader
- East Calhoun Street — 1 reader
- North Lafayette Drive — 1 reader
+ 11 more streets and roads mapped around Sumter — all on the live map above.
Sumter SC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Sumter SC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 28 other agencies.
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 32 traffic.
Camera activity around Sumter, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Sumter. Latest change logged Aug 26, 2026.
What’s watching 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 Sumter — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sumter (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sumter
- 8 new license plate readers reported around Sumter, SC
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Sumter, SC
- 5 new license plate readers reported around Sumter, SC
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Sumter, SC
What you can do in 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 Sumter
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).