Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sandston, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Sandston — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sandston, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Sandston itself.
The rest sit in Highland Springs (2), Varina (1).
7 of them name an operator in the record: Henrico County Police Division (5), New Kent County (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
5 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 Sandston
The readers mapped around Sandston break down as 10 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Henrico County Police Division, New Kent County. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- East Williamsburg Road — 2 readers
- Dorey Park Drive — 1 reader
- Hanover Road — 1 reader
- Hart Street — 1 reader
- New Kent Highway — 1 reader
- Patriots Landing Drive — 1 reader
- West Williamsburg Road — 1 reader
- Meadowlark Court — 1 reader
- Charles City Road — 1 reader
Sandston in the Henrico County picture
Henrico County has 127 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #787 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 334,434 residents and 1,429 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: Henrico County Police Division (5), New Kent County (2).
What’s watching Sandston
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 Sandston — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sandston (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Sandston
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 Sandston
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).