Flock & ALPR Cameras in Richlands, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Richlands — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Richlands, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Richlands itself.
The rest sit in Cedar Bluff (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Richlands 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 Richlands
The readers mapped around Richlands break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Dec 2025.
- Edgewater Drive — 1 reader
Richlands in the Tazewell County picture
Tazewell County has 17 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #662 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 39,933 residents and 2,048 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 48.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Richlands
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 Richlands — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Richlands (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Richlands
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 Richlands
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).