Flock & ALPR Cameras in Franklin, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Franklin — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Franklin, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 13 of them sit inside Franklin itself.
The rest sit in Suffolk (6), Camptown (1).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Franklin Police Department (2), Suffolk Police Department (2), 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 Franklin in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Franklin
The readers mapped around Franklin break down as 22 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Suffolk Police Department, Franklin Police Department, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Quay Road — 3 readers
- Ruritan Boulevard — 2 readers
- South Street — 2 readers
- General Thomas Highway — 2 readers
- East 2nd Avenue — 2 readers
- North High Street — 2 readers
- Clay Street — 2 readers
- Hunterdale Road — 1 reader
- Bailey Drive — 1 reader
- Gates Road — 1 reader
- Armory Drive — 1 reader
- Smiths Ferry Road — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Franklin — all on the live map above.
Franklin VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Franklin VA PD runs 32 cameras of its own, has logged 88 plate-database searches, has captured 71,067 vehicle records. Its network connects to 2 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Franklin in the Franklin city picture
Franklin city has 7 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #158 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.3% nationally. That’s across 8,212 residents and 79 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 22 traffic. Operators named on the record: Suffolk Police Department (2), Franklin Police Department (2), Flock Safety (1).
Camera activity around Franklin, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Franklin. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Franklin
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 Franklin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Franklin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Franklin
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Franklin, VA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Franklin, VA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Franklin, VA
What you can do in Franklin
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 Franklin
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).