Flock & ALPR Cameras in Petersburg, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Petersburg — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Petersburg, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Petersburg itself.
The rest sit in Colonial Heights (3).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Petersburg Police Department (3), Colonial Heights Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
3 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 Petersburg in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Petersburg
The readers mapped around Petersburg break down as 15 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Petersburg Police Department, Colonial Heights Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Crater Road — 3 readers
- Halifax Street — 2 readers
- Wagner Road — 2 readers
- Bear Alley — 1 reader
- South Sycamore Street — 1 reader
- Boulevard — 1 reader
- Southpark Boulevard — 1 reader
- West Roslyn Road — 1 reader
- Defense Road — 1 reader
- Allstate Drive — 1 reader
- Squirrel Level Road — 1 reader
Petersburg VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Petersburg VA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 18 other agencies.
Petersburg in the Petersburg city picture
Petersburg city has 6 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,454 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 33,365 residents and 248 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 25.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic. Operators named on the record: Petersburg Police Department (3), Colonial Heights Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Petersburg, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Petersburg. Latest change logged Aug 21, 2026.
What’s watching Petersburg
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 Petersburg — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Petersburg (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Petersburg
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 Petersburg
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).