Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cape Charles, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Cape Charles — 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 Cape Charles, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Cape Charles itself.
The rest sit in Cheriton (4).
11 of them name an operator in the record: Northampton County Sheriff's Office (10), Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel District (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
10 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Cape Charles in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Cape Charles
The readers mapped around Cape Charles break down as 15 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Northampton County Sheriff's Office, Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel District. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- Bayview Circle — 3 readers
- Seaside Road — 2 readers
- Sunnyside Road — 2 readers
- Parsons Circle — 2 readers
- North Bayside Road — 1 reader
- Fairview Road — 1 reader
- Stone Road — 1 reader
- Arlington Road — 1 reader
- Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel — 1 reader
- Townefield Road — 1 reader
Cape Charles in the Northampton County picture
Northampton County has 33 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #15 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 0.7% nationally. That’s across 12,115 residents and 958 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 18.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic. Operators named on the record: Northampton County Sheriff's Office (10), Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel District (1).
What’s watching Cape Charles
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 Cape Charles — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cape Charles (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Cape Charles
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 Cape Charles
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).