Surveillance in South Carolina
84/100
South Carolina has 5,011 documented surveillance devices — roughly 93.3 per 100,000 residents.
3,931
License plate readers
189
CCTV cameras
729
DOT traffic cameras
0
Red light / speed cams
111
Gunshot detectors
51
Toll booths
Documented police technology
- 752 agency records in the EFF Atlas of Surveillance, covering 222 documented technology deployments
- Confirmed ShotSpotter / SoundThinking coverage zone: None documented (individual acoustic sensors are still mapped above)
- Cell-site simulators (Stingray): Not documented
- Federal surveillance grants: $7.8M
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.