Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hollins, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Hollins — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hollins, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Hollins itself.
The rest sit in Roanoke (4).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Hollins in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:18 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hollins
The readers mapped around Hollins break down as 7 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Rutgers Avenue Northwest — 3 readers
- Plantation Road — 1 reader
- I 81;US 220 — 1 reader
- I 581;US 220 — 1 reader
- I 81 — 1 reader
Hollins in the Roanoke County picture
Roanoke County has 15 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,549 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 96,793 residents and 1,721 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 47% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (2).
What’s watching Hollins
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 Hollins — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hollins (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Hollins
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 Hollins
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).