Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Suffolk, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around South Suffolk — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Suffolk, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside South Suffolk itself.
The rest sit in Suffolk (12).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Suffolk Police Department (4). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near South Suffolk in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in South Suffolk
The readers mapped around South Suffolk break down as 12 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Suffolk Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Carolina Road — 4 readers
- Holland Road — 4 readers
- Nancy Drive — 2 readers
- Dill Road — 1 reader
- Hosier Road — 1 reader
South Suffolk in the Suffolk city picture
Suffolk city has 109 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #82 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 3.8% nationally. That’s across 96,638 residents and 1,378 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic. Operators named on the record: Suffolk Police Department (4).
What’s watching South Suffolk
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 Suffolk — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Suffolk (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around South Suffolk
What you can do in South Suffolk
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 Suffolk
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).