Flock & ALPR Cameras in Shawsville, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Shawsville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Shawsville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:24 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
📷 Shawsville, VA just got its first reported license plate readers. Someone went out and looked — now it's on the map. #ALPR #Surveillance #Shawsville
Where the cameras are in Shawsville
The readers mapped around Shawsville break down as 7 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Aug 2026.
- I 81 — 4 readers
- Friendship Road — 1 reader
- Pedlar Road — 1 reader
- Seneca Hollow Road — 1 reader
Shawsville in the Montgomery County picture
Montgomery County has 36 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #846 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 99,159 residents and 1,946 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 30.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
Camera activity around Shawsville, last 30 days
7 newly reported in our hourly change log for Shawsville. Latest change logged Aug 15, 2026.
What’s watching Shawsville
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 Shawsville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Shawsville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Shawsville
What you can do in Shawsville
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 Shawsville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).