Flock & ALPR Cameras in Newport News, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 81 automated license plate readers in and around Newport News — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 80 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Newport News, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 57 of them sit inside Newport News itself.
The rest sit in Hampton (21), Suffolk (2).
63 of them name an operator in the record: Newport News Police Department (44), Hampton Police Division (17), Harbour View HOA (1), Suffolk Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Newport News in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:19 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Newport News
The readers mapped around Newport News break down as 66 Flock Safety, 11 Axis Communications, 3 Ekin. Named operators in the reports: Newport News Police Department, Hampton Police Division, Harbour View HOA, Suffolk Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Jefferson Avenue — 14 readers
- Warwick Boulevard — 6 readers
- Harpersville Road — 4 readers
- West Pembroke Avenue — 4 readers
- Hampton Roads Center Parkway — 3 readers
- West Mercury Boulevard — 3 readers
- Marshall Avenue — 3 readers
- Briarfield Road — 3 readers
- Chestnut Avenue — 3 readers
- Forrest Drive — 2 readers
- 16th Street — 2 readers
- Victoria Boulevard — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Newport News — all on the live map above.
Newport News VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Newport News VA PD runs 141 cameras of its own, has logged 1,043 plate-database searches, has captured 655,139 vehicle records. Its network connects to 51 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Newport News in the Newport News city picture
Newport News city has 108 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #391 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 18.2% nationally. That’s across 184,774 residents and 656 road miles. By road density that is 0.16 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 80 traffic. Operators named on the record: Newport News Police Department (44), Hampton Police Division (17), Harbour View HOA (1).
Camera activity around Newport News, last 30 days
13 newly reported in our hourly change log for Newport News. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Newport News
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 Newport News — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Newport News (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Newport News
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What you can do in Newport News
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 Newport News
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).