Flock & ALPR Cameras in Dayton, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Dayton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Dayton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Dayton itself.
The rest sit in Harrisonburg (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Dayton in the Rockingham County picture
Rockingham County has 31 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #834 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 84,739 residents and 2,917 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 42.3% of counties nationally.
What’s watching Dayton
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 Dayton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Dayton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Dayton
What you can do in Dayton
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 Dayton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).