Flock & ALPR Cameras in Poquoson, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 60 automated license plate readers in and around Poquoson — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 61 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Poquoson, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Poquoson itself.
The rest sit in Newport News (36), Hampton (11), Bethel Manor (6).
41 of them name an operator in the record: Newport News Police Department (16), York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office (7), Hampton Police Division (6), Flock Safety (5), Patrick Henry Mall (3), Poquoson Police Department (2), US Department of Energy (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
4 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 19 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Poquoson
The readers mapped around Poquoson break down as 48 Flock Safety, 8 Axis Communications, 3 Motorola. Named operators in the reports: Newport News Police Department, York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office, Hampton Police Division, Flock Safety, Patrick Henry Mall. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- J Clyde Morris Boulevard — 6 readers
- Jefferson Avenue — 6 readers
- Oyster Point Road — 5 readers
- Kiln Creek Parkway — 4 readers
- Wythe Creek Road — 3 readers
- Victory Boulevard — 3 readers
- Hogan Drive — 3 readers
- Old Oyster Point Road — 3 readers
- 1st Street — 3 readers
- Newport News — 3 readers
- George Washington Memorial Highway — 2 readers
- Saunders Road — 2 readers
+ 13 more streets and roads mapped around Poquoson — all on the live map above.
Poquoson VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Poquoson VA PD runs 3 cameras of its own, has logged 120 plate-database searches, has captured 54,690 vehicle records. Its network connects to 39 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Poquoson in the Poquoson city picture
Poquoson city has 2 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,530 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 12,556 residents and 79 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 24.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 56 traffic, 3 commercial. Operators named on the record: Newport News Police Department (16), York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office (7), Hampton Police Division (6).
Camera activity around Poquoson, last 30 days
10 newly reported in our hourly change log for Poquoson. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Poquoson
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 Poquoson — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Poquoson (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Poquoson
- York-Poquoson sheriff defends Flock cameras as residents debate privacy concerns at forum
- York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office to hold community forum on Flock cameras
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Poquoson, VA
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Poquoson, VA
What you can do in Poquoson
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.
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Cameras near Poquoson
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).