Surveillance in West Virginia
70/100
West Virginia has 3,355 documented surveillance devices — roughly 189.5 per 100,000 residents.
2,264
License plate readers
798
CCTV cameras
126
DOT traffic cameras
0
Red light / speed cams
62
Gunshot detectors
105
Toll booths
Documented police technology
- 104 agency records in the EFF Atlas of Surveillance, covering 60 documented technology deployments
- Confirmed ShotSpotter / SoundThinking coverage zone: None documented (individual acoustic sensors are still mapped above)
- Cell-site simulators (Stingray): Not documented
- Federal surveillance grants: $4.5M
Counts are documented devices from OpenStreetMap, state DOT feeds, municipal open data and the EFF Atlas of Surveillance. They are a floor, not a total — undocumented cameras are common, and a device appearing here is not confirmation it is currently operating.