Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Hill, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around South Hill — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Hill, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside South Hill itself.
The rest sit in Brodnax (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: [Mecklenburg County] (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 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 South Hill in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 11:24 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in South Hill
The readers mapped around South Hill break down as 6 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: [Mecklenburg County]. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Ferrell Street — 2 readers
- East Atlantic Street — 1 reader
- North Mecklenburg Avenue — 1 reader
- Highway Forty-Seven — 1 reader
- South Hill Road — 1 reader
- Pace Drive — 1 reader
- Piney Pond Road — 1 reader
South Hill VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, South Hill VA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 20 other agencies.
South Hill in the Mecklenburg County picture
Mecklenburg County has 21 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #268 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.5% nationally. That’s across 30,431 residents and 2,736 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 50.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: [Mecklenburg County] (1).
Camera activity around South Hill, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for South Hill. Latest change logged Aug 26, 2026.
What’s watching South Hill
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 South Hill — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Hill (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in South Hill
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 South Hill
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).