Flock & ALPR Cameras in Salem, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Salem — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Salem, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Salem itself.
The rest sit in Roanoke (1).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (3). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
9 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 Salem in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Salem
The readers mapped around Salem break down as 14 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- I 81 — 9 readers
- Salem — 2 readers
- State Route 705 — 1 reader
- Spring Street — 1 reader
- Peters Creek Road Northwest — 1 reader
Salem in the Salem city picture
Salem city has 8 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #982 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 25,477 residents and 213 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (3).
Camera activity around Salem, last 30 days
5 newly reported in our hourly change log for Salem. Latest change logged Aug 15, 2026.
What’s watching Salem
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 Salem — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Salem (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Salem
What you can do in Salem
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 Salem
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).