Flock & ALPR Cameras in Princeton, West Virginia
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Princeton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Princeton
The readers mapped around Princeton break down as 3 Flock Safety, 1 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Old Oakvale Road — 1 reader
- Service Road — 1 reader
- I 77 — 1 reader
- Oakvale Road — 1 reader
Princeton in the Mercer County picture
Mercer County has 3 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,977 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 59,062 residents and 1,596 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 80.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
Camera activity around Princeton, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Princeton. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Princeton
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 Princeton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Princeton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Princeton
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 Princeton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).