Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cumberland, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Cumberland — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Cumberland
The readers mapped around Cumberland break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Anderson Highway — 4 readers
- Old Buckingham Road — 1 reader
Cumberland in the Cumberland County picture
Cumberland County has 3 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #997 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 9,745 residents and 1,232 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 77.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Cumberland, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Cumberland. Latest change logged Aug 16, 2026.
What’s watching Cumberland
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 Cumberland — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cumberland (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Cumberland
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 Cumberland
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).