Flock & ALPR Cameras in Culpeper, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Culpeper — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Culpeper
The readers mapped around Culpeper break down as 15 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Town of Culpeper Police Department, Culpeper Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Brandy Road — 2 readers
- Madison Road — 2 readers
- Virginia Avenue — 1 reader
- East Chandler Street — 1 reader
- Germanna Highway — 1 reader
- Orange Road — 1 reader
- Montannus Drive — 1 reader
- Sperryville Pike — 1 reader
- Braggs Corner Road — 1 reader
- North Main Street — 1 reader
- West Davis Street — 1 reader
- Ira Hoffman Lane — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Culpeper — all on the live map above.
Culpeper VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Culpeper VA PD runs 18 cameras of its own, has logged 72 plate-database searches, has captured 140,214 vehicle records. Its network connects to 44 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Culpeper in the Culpeper County picture
Culpeper County has 14 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,141 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 53,563 residents and 1,781 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 49.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic, 1 parking_entrance. Operators named on the record: Town of Culpeper Police Department (12), Culpeper Police Department (3).
What’s watching Culpeper
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 Culpeper — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Culpeper (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Culpeper
- Culpeper Police Department. . Chief C. Settle will be giving a presentation on Automatic License Plate Readers (APLRs), Sergeant A. Caruso will be giving a presentation on navigating traffic circles, and our Criminal Investigations Division will be giving a Maj
- Culpeper Police Department. . #PressRelease ALPR Helps Culpeper Police Find Missing and Endangered Elderly Adult On May 23, 2025 at approximately 8:03PM, Flock ALPR (Automated License Plate Reader) notified Culpeper Police Department officers t
- Culpeper police to hold informational license plate reader seminar
What you can do in Culpeper
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 Culpeper
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).