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West Virginia · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Dunbar, West Virginia

Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Dunbar — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Dunbar, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Dunbar itself.

The rest sit in South Charleston (3).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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5
Reported cameras nearby
#17
of 61 West Virginia cities tracked
2%
of West Virginia’s reported cameras
Live camera map 5 reported cameras around Dunbar, West Virginia
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Dunbar

No new reports near Dunbar in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 05:51 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Dunbar

The readers mapped around Dunbar break down as 3 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.

  • R H L Boulevard — 3 readers
  • 10th Street — 2 readers

Dunbar 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 5 traffic.

What’s watching Dunbar

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 Dunbar — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Dunbar (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Dunbar

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.

Cameras near Dunbar

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).