Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wytheville, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Wytheville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Paused
Wytheville is on the record here. Wytheville Police Chief Joel Hash said in a news release around September 2, 2026 that the town is suspending its Flock system. He said plate readers had helped identify stolen vehicles and resolve cases but that public trust and constitutional accountability come first, citing nationwide concerns and neighboring agencies pausing or ending Flock contracts.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wytheville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Wytheville itself.
The rest sit in Max Meadows (1).
2 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 Wytheville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Wytheville
The readers mapped around Wytheville break down as 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Dominion Street — 3 readers
- East Main Street — 1 reader
- Peppers Ferry Road — 1 reader
- North 4th Street — 1 reader
- West Main Street — 1 reader
- Grayson Turnpike — 1 reader
- Ivanhoe Road — 1 reader
- Max Meadows Road — 1 reader
Wytheville VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wytheville VA PD runs 4 cameras of its own, has logged 26 plate-database searches, has captured 91,957 vehicle records. Its network connects to 45 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Wytheville in the Wythe County picture
Wythe County has 14 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #523 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 24.4% nationally. That’s across 28,219 residents and 1,909 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 51.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic.
What’s watching Wytheville
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 Wytheville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wytheville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wytheville
- Campbell and Appomattox counties , Wytheville PD cut ties with Flock cameras
- Wytheville Police Department no longer using Flock Safety ALPRs
- Wytheville, VA: Paused
What you can do in Wytheville
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 Wytheville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).