Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bensley, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Bensley — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bensley, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Bensley itself.
The rest sit in Richmond (4), Meadowbrook (1).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Chesterfield County (1), Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office (1), Richmond Police Department (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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- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Bensley
The readers mapped around Bensley break down as 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Chesterfield County, Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office, Richmond Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Route 1 — 2 readers
- Commerce Road — 2 readers
- Dundas Road — 2 readers
- Afton Avenue — 1 reader
- Meadowdale Boulevard — 1 reader
Bensley 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 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: Chesterfield County (1), Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office (1), Richmond Police Department (1).
What’s watching Bensley
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 Bensley — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bensley (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Bensley
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 Bensley
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).