Surveillance in North Carolina
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North Carolina has 6,508 documented surveillance devices — roughly 60.1 per 100,000 residents.
5,222
License plate readers
354
CCTV cameras
731
DOT traffic cameras
1
Red light / speed cams
111
Gunshot detectors
89
Toll booths
Documented police technology
- 606 agency records in the EFF Atlas of Surveillance, covering 226 documented technology deployments
- Confirmed ShotSpotter / SoundThinking coverage zone: None documented (individual acoustic sensors are still mapped above)
- Cell-site simulators (Stingray): Documented
- Federal surveillance grants: $5.5M
Most surveilled cities in North Carolina
Raleigh214 devices63Charlotte136 devices48Winston-Salem66 devices33Greensboro60 devices33Durham48 devices31
Counts are documented devices from OpenStreetMap, state DOT feeds, municipal open data and the EFF Atlas of Surveillance. They are a floor, not a total — undocumented cameras are common, and a device appearing here is not confirmation it is currently operating.