Flock & ALPR Cameras in Yorktown, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 65 automated license plate readers in and around Yorktown — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 64 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Yorktown, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Yorktown itself.
The rest sit in Newport News (40), Seaford (1).
53 of them name an operator in the record: Newport News Police Department (36), York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office (12), Lowe's (3), Flock Safety (1), James City County (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
13 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 Yorktown in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 03:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Yorktown
The readers mapped around Yorktown break down as 58 Flock Safety, 5 Motorola Solutions, 1 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Newport News Police Department, York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office, Lowe's, Flock Safety, James City County. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Jefferson Avenue — 6 readers
- Water Street — 6 readers
- Denbigh Boulevard — 5 readers
- Fort Eustis Boulevard — 5 readers
- Warwick Boulevard — 5 readers
- George Washington Memorial Highway — 4 readers
- Washington Boulevard — 4 readers
- Yorktown Road — 3 readers
- Dare Road — 2 readers
- Atkinson Boulevard — 2 readers
- Chatham Drive — 2 readers
- Industrial Park Drive — 2 readers
+ 17 more streets and roads mapped around Yorktown — all on the live map above.
Yorktown in the York County picture
York County has 31 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #639 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 70,590 residents and 811 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 63 traffic. Operators named on the record: Newport News Police Department (36), York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office (12), Lowe's (3).
Camera activity around Yorktown, last 30 days
6 newly reported in our hourly change log for Yorktown. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Yorktown
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 Yorktown — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Yorktown (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Yorktown
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Yorktown, VA
- Virginia is 1 of Just 3 States that Passed License Plate Reader Laws this Year, Despite Widespread Interest
- License Plate Reader Bill Faces More Scrutiny in Virginia Senate | Williamsburg Yorktown Daily
- License Plate Reader Use Faces New Scrutiny in Virginia | Williamsburg Yorktown Daily
What you can do in Yorktown
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 Yorktown
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).