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West Virginia · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Saint Albans, West Virginia

Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Saint Albans — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Saint Albans, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Saint Albans itself.

The rest sit in Nitro (1).

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

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Reported cameras nearby
#45
of 61 West Virginia cities tracked
0.4%
of West Virginia’s reported cameras
Live camera map 1 reported cameras around Saint Albans, 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 Saint Albans

No new reports near Saint Albans in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:58 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Saint Albans

The readers mapped around Saint Albans break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to May 2026.

  • Center Street — 1 reader

Saint Albans 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 1 traffic.

What’s watching Saint Albans

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

What you can do in Saint Albans

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 Saint Albans

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