Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Charleston, West Virginia
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around South Charleston — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Charleston, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside South Charleston itself.
The rest sit in Charleston (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 30 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 30 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in South Charleston
The readers mapped around South Charleston break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Aug 2026.
- Dorchester Road — 1 reader
South 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 1 traffic.
What’s watching South 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 South Charleston — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Charleston (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around South Charleston
What you can do in South 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 South Charleston
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).