Flock & ALPR Cameras in Surry, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Surry — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Surry, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Surry itself.
The rest sit in Scotland (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: James City County Police Department (1), Surry County Sheriff's Office (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
3 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 Surry in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 08:00 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Surry
The readers mapped around Surry break down as 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: James City County Police Department, Surry County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Virginia Capital Trail — 2 readers
- Colonial Trail West — 1 reader
- Rolfe Highway — 1 reader
Surry in the Surry County picture
Surry County has 1 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,555 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 6,552 residents and 1,156 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 91.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: James City County Police Department (1), Surry County Sheriff's Office (1).
What’s watching Surry
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 Surry — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Surry (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Surry
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 Surry
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).