Flock & ALPR Cameras in Surfside Beach, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Surfside Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Surfside Beach, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Surfside Beach itself.
The rest sit in Garden City Beach (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Surfside Beach in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Surfside Beach
The readers mapped around Surfside Beach break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Glenns Bay Road — 1 reader
- 16th Avenue North — 1 reader
- Platt Boulevard — 1 reader
- South Ocean Boulevard — 1 reader
- North Waccamaw Drive — 1 reader
- 8th Avenue South Extension — 1 reader
- US 17 Business — 1 reader
- Frontage Road — 1 reader
Surfside Beach SC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Surfside Beach SC PD runs 14 cameras of its own, has logged 53 plate-database searches, has captured 219,753 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,448 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: 18th Judicial District Drug Task Force - TN PD, Abbeville SC PD, Abington Township PA PD, Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO, Adrian MI PD.
Surfside Beach in the Horry County picture
Horry County has 80 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,321 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 368,937 residents and 3,567 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 26.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
Camera activity around Surfside Beach, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Surfside Beach. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Surfside Beach
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 Surfside Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Surfside Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Surfside Beach
What you can do in Surfside Beach
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.
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Cameras near Surfside Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).