Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bellwood, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Bellwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bellwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Bellwood itself.
The rest sit in Chester (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Bellwood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Bellwood
The readers mapped around Bellwood break down as 1 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office. Every report here dates to Apr 2025.
- Route 1 — 1 reader
Bellwood in the Chesterfield County picture
Chesterfield County has 120 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #957 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 371,610 residents and 2,657 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 13.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic. Operators named on the record: Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office (1).
What’s watching Bellwood
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 Bellwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bellwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Bellwood
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 Bellwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).