CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. – Automated license plate readers, commonly called Flock cameras, have quietly spread across Christiansburg — and many of the people who drive past them every day had no idea they were there.
The cameras automatically record a vehicle’s license plate number, location, and time of day as it passes.
Cameras closer together than most residents realized
The cameras are not just scattered across town — in some stretches, they are clustered tightly together. There are three separate ALPRs within a quarter mile of each other off Peppers Ferry Road in Christiansburg. A fourth was located less than a quarter mile from the others.
Blacksburg resident Justin Whitlock said the concentration caught him off guard…