Flock & ALPR Cameras in Virginia Beach, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 132 automated license plate readers in and around Virginia Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 27 Axon Enterprise camera newly reported
- Sep 21 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 6 new license plate readers just reported around Virginia Beach, VA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #VirginiaBeach
📷 18 new license plate readers just reported around Virginia Beach, VA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #VirginiaBeach
Where the cameras are in Virginia Beach
The readers mapped around Virginia Beach break down as 120 Flock Safety, 13 Axon Enterprise, 2 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Virginia Beach Police Department, Lowe's, Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Virginia Beach Boulevard — 12 readers
- Holland Road — 11 readers
- Lynnhaven Parkway — 11 readers
- Princess Anne Road — 9 readers
- General Booth Boulevard — 7 readers
- Laskin Road — 4 readers
- London Bridge Road — 4 readers
- North Great Neck Road — 3 readers
- South Rosemont Road — 3 readers
- Northampton Boulevard — 3 readers
- Dam Neck Road Multi-Use Path — 3 readers
- Sandbridge Road — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Virginia Beach — all on the live map above.
Virginia Beach VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Virginia Beach VA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 15 other agencies.
Virginia Beach in the Virginia Beach city picture
Virginia Beach city has 63 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,604 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 457,066 residents and 1,759 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 17.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 133 traffic. Operators named on the record: Virginia Beach Police Department (18), Lowe's (5), Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District (2).
Camera activity around Virginia Beach, last 30 days
71 newly reported, 9 removed in our hourly change log for Virginia Beach. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Virginia Beach
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 Virginia Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Virginia Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Virginia Beach
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Virginia Beach, VA
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Virginia Beach, VA
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Virginia Beach, VA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Virginia Beach, VA
What you can do in Virginia Beach
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 Virginia Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).