Verified Flock
Yep. Winston-Salem is flocked.
Yes. Public records in our database document Flock Safety automated license plate readers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina recorded for Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, Wake Forest University Police Department, Winston-Salem State University Police Department and Winston-Salem Police Department. Separately, 35 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 29 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
Agency
Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office
Agency type
Sheriff
Jurisdiction
County
County
Forsyth County
State
North Carolina (NC)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office uses automated license plate readers, according to a November 2022 Winstom-Salem Journal report.
Sources · record AOS002048
Agency
Wake Forest University Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Forsyth County
State
North Carolina (NC)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
The Wake Forest University Police Department uses automated license plate readers, according to a November 2022 Winstom-Salem Journal report.
Sources · record AOS002049
Agency
Winston-Salem State University Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Forsyth County
State
North Carolina (NC)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
The Winston-Salem State University Police Department uses automated license plate readers, according to a November 2022 Winstom-Salem Journal report.
Sources · record AOS002050
Agency
Winston-Salem Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Forsyth County
State
North Carolina (NC)
Vendor
Flock Safety
The Winston-Salem Police Department had a yearlong contract for 25 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of 2023.
Verified deployment detail
No primary sources on file yet
Cameras / readers
Not publicly verified
Contract price
Not publicly verified
Contract start
Not publicly verified
Contract end
Not publicly verified
Data retention
Not publicly verified
Data sharing documented
Not publicly verified
Date approved
Not publicly verified
ALPR policy
Not publicly verified
Contract / public record
Not publicly verified
Flock transparency portal
Not publicly verified
Every value above is transcribed from the linked document. Nothing is estimated or inferred, and claims circulating on social media are never published here. “Not publicly verified” means we have not found a reliable primary or reported source — never that the thing does not exist.
Sources · record AOS011509
These entries document that an agency has been reported to use ALPR technology. They do not establish camera counts, exact locations, cost, retention periods or sharing policies unless the linked source says so.
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Everything on this page traces back to the records below. Where a record carries no linked document, we say so instead of filling the gap.
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
35 mapped camera points inside the Winston-Salem boundary, from OpenStreetMap contributors via the DeFlock ↗ dataset (ODbL). Each point links to its own OpenStreetMap record in the camera list on this page.
Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.
Other North Carolina communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
After more than an hour of public comment, Asheville City Council voted 5-2 to terminate the city's contract with Flock Safety and cut off access to the data already collected. The reporting frames the vote as part of a wider North Carolina reckoning with license plate readers.
Carolina Public PressAug 25, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
Camera counts, contract prices, retention and sharing policies are shown only where we found a primary source. Where they're missing, the information is not publicly verified — see the Flock Files for the documents we do have.
Data attribution
Portions of the surveillance deployment data on this site come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org ↗ Are You Flocked? is independent and is not affiliated with the EFF or Flock Safety. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
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