Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bridgewater, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Bridgewater — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Bridgewater is on the record here. Rocktown Now reported September 9, 2026 that Bridgewater Town Council voted unanimously September 8 to immediately terminate its Flock contract and remove the town's five cameras. The vote also bars reinstalling any automated license plate reader without a public process first. Virginia Bridgewater, not East Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
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No new reports near Bridgewater in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 07:12 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Bridgewater
The readers mapped around Bridgewater break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Oakwood Drive — 1 reader
- John Wayland Highway — 1 reader
- Dry River Road — 1 reader
- Roscoe Burgess Riverwalk — 1 reader
- Dinkel Avenue — 1 reader
- Friedens Church Road — 1 reader
- I 81 — 1 reader
Bridgewater VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bridgewater VA PD runs 5 cameras of its own, has captured 68,894 vehicle records. Its network connects to 26 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Bridgewater in the Rockingham County picture
Rockingham County has 31 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #834 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 84,739 residents and 2,917 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 42.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
What’s watching Bridgewater
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 Bridgewater — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bridgewater (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Bridgewater
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 Bridgewater
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).