Flock & ALPR Cameras in Williamsburg, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 72 automated license plate readers in and around Williamsburg — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 72 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Williamsburg, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 45 of them sit inside Williamsburg itself.
The rest sit in Norge (3), Lightfoot (2), Toano (1).
54 of them name an operator in the record: Williamsburg Police Department (25), James City County Police Department (11), College of William and Mary (9), York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office (4), Lowe's (2), Flock Safety (1), James City County (1), James City County Police (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
21 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Williamsburg
The readers mapped around Williamsburg break down as 72 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Williamsburg Police Department, James City County Police Department, College of William and Mary, York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Richmond Road — 9 readers
- Ukrop Way — 4 readers
- Merrimac Trail — 3 readers
- Monticello Avenue — 3 readers
- Bypass Road — 3 readers
- Jamestown Road — 3 readers
- East Rochambeau Drive — 3 readers
- York Street — 2 readers
- Ironbound Road — 2 readers
- Pocahontas Trail — 2 readers
- Quarterpath Road — 2 readers
- Longhill Road — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Williamsburg — all on the live map above.
Williamsburg VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Williamsburg VA PD runs 32 cameras of its own, has logged 120 plate-database searches, has captured 246,319 vehicle records. Its network connects to 56 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Williamsburg in the Williamsburg city picture
Williamsburg city has 39 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #17 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 0.7% nationally. That’s across 15,564 residents and 97 road miles. By road density that is 0.40 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 68 traffic. Operators named on the record: Williamsburg Police Department (25), James City County Police Department (12), College of William and Mary (9).
Camera activity around Williamsburg, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Williamsburg. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Williamsburg
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 Williamsburg — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Williamsburg (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Williamsburg
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Williamsburg, VA
- Virginia is 1 of Just 3 States that Passed License Plate Reader Laws this Year, Despite Widespread Interest
- One nation, under watch: Williamsburg leads Hampton Roads in Flock camera deployment rate
- License Plate Reader Bill Faces More Scrutiny in Virginia Senate | Williamsburg Yorktown Daily
What you can do in Williamsburg
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 Williamsburg
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).