Atlas · State

South Carolina

What is documented about automated license plate surveillance in South Carolina — and what is still an open question.

Are automated license plate readers used in South Carolina?

Yes. Volunteers have recorded 1,387 automated license plate reader camera locations in South Carolina, across 39 counties. That is a floor, not an inventory — it counts what someone has mapped, not what exists.

Camera data retrieved Aug 15, 2026 · No dated records held

1,387 Camera coordinates 1.2% of the 118,623 we hold nationally. Community-reported, not field-verified by us.
39 Counties with a mapped camera Assigned geometrically from Census county boundaries. A county with no entry has no mapped camera, which is not the same as none.
0 Documented decisions No government decision on record here yet.
0 Full dossiers Places researched down to retention, sharing, warrant standard, and audit policy — including the fields that come back unknown.

Known ALPR locations

Coverage incomplete

  • Camera coordinate
  • Jurisdiction record — no camera coordinates held
  • Program ended, declined, or prohibited

1,387 mapped camera coordinates · 42 jurisdiction records · 50 of 50 states have data. Camera coordinates © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Boundaries and roads: US Census, public domain. Roads are drawn for orientation only — a camera near a road is not a claim about which road it watches.

Pinned to South Carolina. Open the national Atlas to compare with neighbouring states.

Who supplies the cameras

Vendor attribution as recorded by OpenStreetMap contributors. Where a contributor did not identify the vendor the record reads “Unspecified” — that is an unrecorded fact, not a vendorless camera.

Vendor Mapped cameras Share
Flock Safety 1,295 93.4%
Unspecified 55 4.0%
Motorola Solutions 29 2.1%
Axis Communications 3 0.2%
Genetec 2 0.1%
Leonardo/Elsag 2 0.1%
Neology 1 0.1%

Where in South Carolina

1,377 mapped cameras assigned to the county containing them. The 27 remaining counties with at least one mapped camera are in the open data.

  • Greenville 152
  • Charleston 90
  • Richland 86
  • Berkeley 85
  • York 81
  • Horry 78
  • Beaufort 73
  • Greenwood 65
  • Lancaster 57
  • Spartanburg 55
  • Lexington 55
  • Florence 54

Signal

No Signal story yet names South Carolina. That is a gap in our coverage rather than a quiet state — send us what you are seeing.

National developments that apply here

These are not about South Carolina specifically. They govern the cameras in it.

What we don’t know about South Carolina

We hold no researched record for South Carolina deep enough to have produced open questions yet. That is the largest gap on this page.

We don’t know yet. Help us find out.

Unsurveilled holds no documented ALPR decision for any South Carolina jurisdiction. That is a statement about our research capacity, not about South Carolina.

Places in South Carolina

The largest 40 of 68 places we can put on the map. Selecting one centres the map there. A place appearing here says nothing about whether it has cameras — it is a label, and the camera layer is separate and incomplete.