Mapped ALPR cameras found — municipal deployment not independently verified.
Cameras on the map — paperwork missing.
We have no documented municipal deployment record for New Church, Virginia. However, 1 individual ALPR camera location mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 1 of them source-tagged Flock Safety. Mapped camera locations are community evidence of hardware, not a record that the city owns or operates it.
OpenStreetMap contributors have mapped 1 individual ALPR camera location whose coordinates fall inside the New Church, Virginia municipal boundary — 1 of them source-tagged with Flock Safety branding. That is community evidence of hardware, not a government record of a deployment.
We do not currently have an official or EFF deployment record confirming that New Church owns, operates, purchased, or deployed these cameras.
Nothing on file. The EFF Atlas of Surveillance — our source for official and public-record evidence about agency and municipal ALPR use — contains no ALPR deployment record for New Church, Virginia as of 2026-08-07. Absence of a record is not evidence that no deployment exists; it means no public record has reached the dataset.
Documented deployment — official, EFF or public-record evidence about an agency or municipality. Not present here. Community-mapped cameras — individual camera locations contributed to OpenStreetMap and published through DeFlock. Present here, and listed below.
A contract, council minute or records response is what turns this page into a documented deployment. Send us what you've found.
Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.
Everything on this page traces back to the records below. Where a record carries no linked document, we say so instead of filling the gap.
1 mapped camera point inside the New Church boundary, from OpenStreetMap contributors via the DeFlock ↗ dataset (ODbL). Each point links to its own OpenStreetMap record in the camera list on this page.
Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.
Other Virginia communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
Public-works crews removed every leased camera on Oct. 31 and put them in storage for the company to collect. Officials had first said Flock would pay for removal, then clarified that the Oct. 21 date was a request rather than a contract deadline and that the county will not seek reimbursement.
Henrico CitizenNov 3, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
Related reading:Map of documented deployments
The town council chose not to renew despite the police chief and mayor calling the cameras useful. The three cameras will be deactivated and bagged.
Cardinal NewsOct 8, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
Related reading:Map of documented deployments
Henrico announced it would terminate its Flock agreement within a week. Board chair Roscoe Cooper said police used the data appropriately but the county 'cannot ignore the potential for misuse of system data by others.' Arlington County voted Sept. 15 to remove 41 cameras.
WHRO / Virginia Center for Investigative JournalismOct 7, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
Related reading:Map of documented deployments
Cardinal News counts at least a dozen Virginia localities that have stepped away from Flock devices since July, and reports Lynchburg may be next.
Cardinal NewsSep 3, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
Data attribution
Portions of the surveillance deployment data on this site come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org ↗ Are You Flocked? is independent and is not affiliated with the EFF or Flock Safety. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
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