Atlas · State

West Virginia

What is documented about automated license plate surveillance in West Virginia — and what is still an open question.

Are automated license plate readers used in West Virginia?

Yes. Volunteers have recorded 208 automated license plate reader camera locations in West Virginia, across 21 counties. That is a floor, not an inventory — it counts what someone has mapped, not what exists.

Camera data retrieved Aug 15, 2026 · Most recent record Aug 11, 2026

208 Camera coordinates 0.2% of the 118,623 we hold nationally. Community-reported, not field-verified by us.
21 Counties with a mapped camera Assigned geometrically from Census county boundaries. A county with no entry has no mapped camera, which is not the same as none.
1 Documented decisions 0 ended, declined, or suspended · 1 adopted, renewed, or expanded.
0 Full dossiers Places researched down to retention, sharing, warrant standard, and audit policy — including the fields that come back unknown.

Known ALPR locations

Coverage incomplete

  • Camera coordinate
  • Jurisdiction record — no camera coordinates held
  • Program ended, declined, or prohibited

208 mapped camera coordinates · 42 jurisdiction records · 50 of 50 states have data. Camera coordinates © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Boundaries and roads: US Census, public domain. Roads are drawn for orientation only — a camera near a road is not a claim about which road it watches.

Pinned to West Virginia. Open the national Atlas to compare with neighbouring states.

Who supplies the cameras

Vendor attribution as recorded by OpenStreetMap contributors. Where a contributor did not identify the vendor the record reads “Unspecified” — that is an unrecorded fact, not a vendorless camera.

Vendor Mapped cameras Share
Flock Safety 161 77.4%
Unspecified 14 6.7%
Leonardo/Elsag 10 4.8%
Motorola Solutions 10 4.8%
Genetec 6 2.9%
LiveView Technologies 3 1.4%
Axis Communications 3 1.4%
Neology 1 0.5%

Where in West Virginia

206 mapped cameras assigned to the county containing them. The 9 remaining counties with at least one mapped camera are in the open data.

  • Monongalia 50
  • Marion 44
  • Wood 28
  • Kanawha 16
  • Harrison 12
  • Ohio 9
  • Cabell 6
  • Putnam 6
  • Upshur 5
  • Raleigh 5
  • Berkeley 5
  • Mercer 3

What governments here have decided

Every decision we hold for West Virginia, most recent first. The Decision Record exists because deployment databases record arrivals and not reversals.

Jurisdiction Decision Date Vendor Sourcing
Huntington Adopted Jul 13, 2026 Flock Safety Reported

Signal

No Signal story yet names West Virginia. That is a gap in our coverage rather than a quiet state — send us what you are seeing.

National developments that apply here

These are not about West Virginia specifically. They govern the cameras in it.

What we don’t know about West Virginia

We hold no researched record for West Virginia deep enough to have produced open questions yet. That is the largest gap on this page.

Help close the gaps.

We hold records for 1 West Virginia jurisdiction. There are far more than that. A single records request from a resident often establishes more than weeks of desk research.

Places in West Virginia

The largest 28 of 28 places we can put on the map. Selecting one centres the map there. A place appearing here says nothing about whether it has cameras — it is a label, and the camera layer is separate and incomplete.