Flock & ALPR Cameras in Altavista, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Altavista — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Altavista, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Altavista itself.
The rest sit in Hurt (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Altavista in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Altavista
The readers mapped around Altavista break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Main Street — 2 readers
- Clarion Road — 1 reader
- East Hurt Road — 1 reader
Altavista VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Altavista VA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 62 other agencies.
Altavista in the Pittsylvania County picture
Pittsylvania County has 2 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #2,072 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 60,148 residents and 4,009 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 97.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Altavista
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 Altavista — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Altavista (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Altavista
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.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Altavista
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).