Flock & ALPR Cameras in Emporia, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 32 automated license plate readers in and around Emporia — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 39 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Emporia, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 20 of them sit inside Emporia itself.
The rest sit in Jarratt (2).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Emporia Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
17 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Emporia
The readers mapped around Emporia break down as 37 Flock Safety, 1 Leonardo. Named operators in the reports: Emporia Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Market Drive — 4 readers
- East Atlantic Street — 3 readers
- North Main Street — 3 readers
- Moore's Ferry Road — 2 readers
- Jarratt Avenue — 2 readers
- West Atlantic Street — 2 readers
- Walnut Grove Drive — 2 readers
- Courtland Road — 2 readers
- Brunswick Avenue — 2 readers
- Dry Bread Road — 1 reader
- Sussex Drive — 1 reader
- Otterdam Road — 1 reader
+ 13 more streets and roads mapped around Emporia — all on the live map above.
Emporia VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Emporia VA PD runs 472 cameras of its own, has logged 66 plate-database searches, has captured 100,652 vehicle records. Its network connects to 61 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Emporia in the Emporia city picture
Emporia city has 5 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #142 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 6.6% nationally. That’s across 5,633 residents and 70 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 7.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 35 traffic. Operators named on the record: Emporia Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Emporia, last 30 days
7 newly reported in our hourly change log for Emporia. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Emporia
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 Emporia — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Emporia (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Emporia
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Emporia, VA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Emporia, VA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Emporia, VA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Emporia, VA
What you can do in Emporia
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 Emporia
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).