Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bon Air, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 32 automated license plate readers in and around Bon Air — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 32 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bon Air, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Bon Air itself.
The rest sit in Richmond (22), Manchester (3), Rockwood (1).
9 of them name an operator in the record: Richmond Police Department (5), Lowe's (3), CCPD (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
4 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- 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 Bon Air
The readers mapped around Bon Air break down as 29 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Richmond Police Department, Lowe's, CCPD. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Midlothian Turnpike — 6 readers
- Sheila Lane — 5 readers
- Erich Road — 4 readers
- Forest Hill Avenue — 3 readers
- Boulders Parkway — 2 readers
- Blakemore Road — 2 readers
- German School Road — 1 reader
- Jahnke Road — 1 reader
- Robious Road — 1 reader
- Buford Road — 1 reader
- Reams Road — 1 reader
- South Providence Road — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Bon Air — all on the live map above.
Bon Air 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 26 traffic, 2 entrance. Operators named on the record: Richmond Police Department (5), Lowe's (3), CCPD (1).
Camera activity around Bon Air, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Bon Air. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching Bon Air
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 Bon Air — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bon Air (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bon Air
What you can do in Bon Air
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.
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Cameras near Bon Air
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).