Flock & ALPR Cameras in Radford, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Radford — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Radford, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Radford itself.
The rest sit in Fairlawn (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Radford Police Department (3), Pulaski County Sheriff's Office (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 Radford in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:57 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Radford
The readers mapped around Radford break down as 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Radford Police Department, Pulaski County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Feb 2025.
- US 11 — 2 readers
- Tyler Avenue — 1 reader
- West Main Street — 1 reader
Radford VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Radford VA PD runs 5 cameras of its own, has logged 87 plate-database searches, has captured 68,531 vehicle records.
Radford in the Radford city picture
Radford city has 4 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,213 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 16,505 residents and 90 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 13.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Radford Police Department (3), Pulaski County Sheriff's Office (1).
What’s watching Radford
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 Radford — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Radford (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Radford
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 Radford
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).