Flock & ALPR Cameras in Dumbarton, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Dumbarton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Dumbarton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Dumbarton itself.
The rest sit in Tuckahoe (2).
12 of them name an operator in the record: Henrico County Police Division (11), Flock Safety (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 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 Dumbarton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Dumbarton
The readers mapped around Dumbarton break down as 13 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Henrico County Police Division, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Glenside Drive — 7 readers
- Monument Avenue — 2 readers
- Basie Road — 1 reader
- Bremner Boulevard — 1 reader
- Sprenkle Lane — 1 reader
- Dumbarton Road — 1 reader
Dumbarton in the Henrico County picture
Henrico County has 127 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #787 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 334,434 residents and 1,429 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 13 traffic. Operators named on the record: Henrico County Police Division (11), Flock Safety (1).
What’s watching Dumbarton
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 Dumbarton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Dumbarton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Dumbarton
- Metropolitan Police's policy over live facial recognition 'unlawful' – watchdog | Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter
- Facial recognition technology not about 'total surveillance society' – minister | Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter
- Britain's biggest police force to double use of live facial recognition | Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter
- Privacy group complains of 'unlawful' facial recognition at convenience stores | Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter
What you can do in Dumbarton
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 Dumbarton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).