Flock & ALPR Cameras in Colonial Heights, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Colonial Heights — 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 Colonial Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Colonial Heights itself.
The rest sit in Ettrick (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: CCPD (1), CCSO (1), Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office (1), Colonial Heights Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
6 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 Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 08:56 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Colonial Heights
The readers mapped around Colonial Heights break down as 15 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: CCSO, Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office, Colonial Heights Police Department, CCPD. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Feb 2026.
- Temple Avenue — 4 readers
- Route 1 — 2 readers
- Conduit Road — 2 readers
- Woods Edge Road — 2 readers
- Boulevard — 1 reader
- Harrowgate Road — 1 reader
- Branders Bridge Road — 1 reader
- Lakeview Avenue — 1 reader
- Cougar Trail — 1 reader
Colonial Heights VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Colonial Heights VA PD runs 12 cameras of its own, has logged 147 plate-database searches, has captured 288,330 vehicle records. Its network connects to 16 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Colonial Heights in the Colonial Heights city picture
Colonial Heights city has 12 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #304 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 14.2% nationally. That’s across 18,210 residents and 102 road miles. By road density that is 0.12 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic. Operators named on the record: CCSO (1), Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office (1), Colonial Heights Police Department (1).
What’s watching Colonial Heights
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 Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Colonial Heights (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 Heights
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 Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).