Flock & ALPR Cameras in Norfolk, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 237 automated license plate readers in and around Norfolk — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 237 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Norfolk, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 208 of them sit inside Norfolk itself.
The rest sit in Virginia Beach (29).
189 of them name an operator in the record: Norfolk Police Department (150), Norfolk State University (13), Flock Safety (8), Virginia Beach Police Department (5), Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority (4), City of Norfolk (3), Lochhaven HOA (2), Lowe's (2). 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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- Sep 23 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 11 Axis Communications camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 5 new license plate readers just reported around Norfolk, VA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Norfolk
Where the cameras are in Norfolk
The readers mapped around Norfolk break down as 208 Flock Safety, 13 Axis Communications, 10 Ekin. Named operators in the reports: Norfolk Police Department, Norfolk State University, Flock Safety, Virginia Beach Police Department, Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Chesapeake Boulevard — 14 readers
- Tidewater Drive — 13 readers
- Northampton Boulevard — 9 readers
- East Little Creek Road — 7 readers
- East Princess Anne Road — 7 readers
- Sewells Point Road — 7 readers
- Shore Drive — 6 readers
- Hampton Boulevard — 6 readers
- Norview Avenue — 6 readers
- Ballentine Boulevard — 6 readers
- Granby Street — 5 readers
- North Military Highway — 5 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Norfolk — all on the live map above.
Norfolk VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Norfolk VA PD runs 175 cameras of its own, has logged 2,491 plate-database searches, has captured 1,029,715 vehicle records. Its network connects to 17 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Norfolk in the Norfolk city picture
Norfolk city has 223 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #119 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 5.5% nationally. That’s across 235,037 residents and 761 road miles. By road density that is 0.29 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 233 traffic, 2 residential. Operators named on the record: Norfolk Police Department (150), Norfolk State University (13), Flock Safety (8).
Camera activity around Norfolk, last 30 days
26 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for Norfolk. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Norfolk
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 Norfolk — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Norfolk (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Norfolk
- ALPRs update: Norfolk Virginia, National Policing Institute, and the 4th Amendment
- 7 new license plate readers reported around Norfolk, VA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Norfolk, VA
- 5 new license plate readers reported around Norfolk, VA
What you can do in Norfolk
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 Norfolk
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).