Flock & ALPR Cameras in Charles City, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Charles City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Need this city’s camera data? Custom extracts are free for researchers, journalists and advocates. Ask for it.
No new reports near Charles City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:58 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Charles City
The readers mapped around Charles City break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jan 2026.
- James River Drive — 1 reader
Charles City in the Charles City County picture
Charles City County has 2 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,019 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 6,686 residents and 732 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 75% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Charles City
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 Charles City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Charles City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Charles City
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 Charles City
← All Virginia cameras, counties & cities
Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).