Flock & ALPR Cameras in Southern Gateway, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Southern Gateway — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Southern Gateway, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Southern Gateway itself.
The rest sit in Fredericksburg (1).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (4), City of Fredericksburg (1). 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 Southern Gateway in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Southern Gateway
The readers mapped around Southern Gateway break down as 6 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's, City of Fredericksburg. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- McWhirt Loop — 2 readers
- Banks Ford Parkway — 2 readers
- Fall Hill Avenue — 1 reader
- Plank Road — 1 reader
Southern Gateway in the Stafford County picture
Stafford County has 11 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,901 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 160,520 residents and 1,013 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 41.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (4), City of Fredericksburg (1).
Camera activity around Southern Gateway, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Southern Gateway. Latest change logged Aug 14, 2026.
What’s watching Southern Gateway
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 Southern Gateway — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Southern Gateway (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Southern Gateway
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 Southern Gateway
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).