Flock & ALPR Cameras in Charleston, West Virginia
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Charleston — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Charleston
The readers mapped around Charleston break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Pennsylvania Avenue — 1 reader
- Court Street — 1 reader
- Delaware Avenue — 1 reader
Charleston in the Kanawha County picture
Kanawha County has 13 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,874 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 178,198 residents and 4,358 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 72.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
Camera activity around Charleston, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Charleston. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.
What’s watching Charleston
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 Charleston — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Charleston (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Charleston
- Opponents Work To 'Put Guardrails' On Surveillance Technology In Charleston - West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- 2 new license plate readers reported around South Charleston, WV
What you can do in Charleston
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 Charleston
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).