Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bluefield, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Bluefield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bluefield, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 14 of them sit inside Bluefield itself.
The rest sit in Rocky Gap (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Bluefield in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Bluefield
The readers mapped around Bluefield break down as 14 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Commerce Drive — 3 readers
- Virginia Avenue — 2 readers
- College Avenue — 1 reader
- Leatherwood Lane — 1 reader
- Fincastle Turnpike — 1 reader
- Valley Dale Street — 1 reader
- North College Avenue — 1 reader
- Sanders Lane — 1 reader
- High Street — 1 reader
- Neal Street — 1 reader
- Pleasantview Drive — 1 reader
- North Scenic Highway — 1 reader
Bluefield VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bluefield VA PD has logged 15 plate-database searches, has captured 61,628 vehicle records. Its network connects to 47 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Accomack County VA SO, Bedford County VA SO, Bedford VA PD, Bland County VA SO, Cedar Bluff VA PD, Chilhowie VA PD, Clarksville VA PD, Colonial Beach VA PD.
Bluefield in the Tazewell County picture
Tazewell County has 17 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #662 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 39,933 residents and 2,048 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 48.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic, 1 parking.
Camera activity around Bluefield, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Bluefield. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching Bluefield
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 Bluefield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bluefield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bluefield
What you can do in Bluefield
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 Bluefield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).