Flock & ALPR Cameras in Colonial Beach, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Colonial Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Colonial Beach, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Colonial Beach itself.
The rest sit in King George (1).
6 of them name an operator in the record: Colonial Beach Police Department (3), King George Sherrif's Office (2), King George Sheriff's Office (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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No new reports near Colonial Beach in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:12 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Colonial Beach
The readers mapped around Colonial Beach break down as 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Colonial Beach Police Department, King George Sherrif's Office, King George Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Kings Highway — 2 readers
- Ridge Road — 1 reader
- McKinney Boulevard — 1 reader
- Irving Avenue — 1 reader
- New Monrovia Road — 1 reader
- Round Hill Road — 1 reader
- Stoney Knoll Road — 1 reader
Colonial Beach VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Colonial Beach VA PD runs 4 cameras of its own, has logged 18 plate-database searches, has captured 22,246 vehicle records. Its network connects to 41 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Colonial Beach in the Westmoreland County picture
Westmoreland County has 4 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,332 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 18,683 residents and 1,193 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 69.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: Colonial Beach Police Department (3), King George Sherrif's Office (2), King George Sheriff's Office (1).
What’s watching Colonial Beach
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 Colonial Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Colonial Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Colonial Beach
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 Colonial Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).