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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cedar Bluff, Virginia

Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Cedar Bluff — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cedar Bluff, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Cedar Bluff itself.

The rest sit in Roanoke (5).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#158
of 307 Virginia cities tracked
0.1%
of Virginia’s reported cameras
Live camera map 5 reported cameras around Cedar Bluff, Virginia
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Cedar Bluff

No new reports near Cedar Bluff in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 03:12 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Cedar Bluff

The readers mapped around Cedar Bluff break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.

  • Roy L. Webber Expressway — 3 readers
  • Bullitt Avenue Southeast — 1 reader
  • Tazewell Avenue Southeast — 1 reader
  • Jamison Avenue Southeast — 1 reader

Cedar Bluff VA PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cedar Bluff VA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 70 other agencies.

Cedar Bluff in the Roanoke city picture

Roanoke city has 33 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #926 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 98,677 residents and 603 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 11.5% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.

What’s watching Cedar Bluff

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 Cedar Bluff — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cedar Bluff (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Cedar Bluff

What you can do in Cedar Bluff

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.

Cameras near Cedar Bluff

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).