Flock & ALPR Cameras in Portsmouth Heights, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 153 automated license plate readers in and around Portsmouth Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 154 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Portsmouth Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Portsmouth Heights itself.
The rest sit in Portsmouth (81), Suffolk (38), Chesapeake (35).
64 of them name an operator in the record: Portsmouth Police Department (26), Chesapeake Police Department (11), Suffolk Police Department (11), Lowe's (6), Harbour View HOA (5), Portsmouth Police Department (Virginia) (3), Suffolk PD (1), Unknown (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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- Oct 3 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 18 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Portsmouth Heights
The readers mapped around Portsmouth Heights break down as 147 Flock Safety, 4 LiveView Technologies, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Portsmouth Police Department, Suffolk Police Department, Chesapeake Police Department, Lowe's, Harbour View HOA. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Portsmouth Boulevard — 9 readers
- Frederick Boulevard — 8 readers
- Cedar Lane — 7 readers
- Hampton Roads Parkway — 6 readers
- College Drive — 5 readers
- Cavalier Boulevard — 5 readers
- Airline Boulevard — 5 readers
- High Street West — 5 readers
- Nansemond Parkway — 4 readers
- Bridge Road — 4 readers
- Elmhurst Lane — 4 readers
- Victory Boulevard — 4 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Portsmouth Heights — all on the live map above.
Portsmouth Heights in the Portsmouth city picture
Portsmouth city has 88 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #135 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 6.3% nationally. That’s across 97,299 residents and 396 road miles. By road density that is 0.22 cameras per road mile, in the top 1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 136 traffic, 4 parking, 2 street. Operators named on the record: Portsmouth Police Department (26), Suffolk Police Department (13), Chesapeake Police Department (11).
Camera activity around Portsmouth Heights, last 30 days
34 newly reported, 4 removed in our hourly change log for Portsmouth Heights. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Portsmouth Heights
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 Portsmouth Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Portsmouth Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Portsmouth Heights
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Portsmouth Heights, VA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Portsmouth Heights, VA
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Portsmouth Heights, VA
- 5 new license plate readers reported around Portsmouth Heights, VA
What you can do in Portsmouth Heights
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 Portsmouth Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).