Flock & ALPR Cameras in Alexandria, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Alexandria — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 24 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Alexandria, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 17 of them sit inside Alexandria itself.
The rest sit in Arlington (7).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Alexandria
The readers mapped around Alexandria break down as 24 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- South Patrick Street — 3 readers
- West Glebe Road — 2 readers
- Mount Vernon Avenue — 2 readers
- Potomac Avenue — 2 readers
- Richmond Highway — 2 readers
- East Braddock Road — 2 readers
- Thomas Avenue — 2 readers
- Wayne F Anderson Bikeway — 1 reader
- Russell Road — 1 reader
- Commonwealth Avenue — 1 reader
- King Street — 1 reader
- George Washington Memorial Parkway — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Alexandria — all on the live map above.
Alexandria VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Alexandria VA PD runs 61 cameras of its own. Its network connects to 31 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Alexandria in the Alexandria city picture
Alexandria city has 66 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #676 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 156,788 residents and 160 road miles. By road density that is 0.41 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 19 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (1).
Camera activity around Alexandria, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Alexandria. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Alexandria
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 Alexandria — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Alexandria (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Alexandria
- Alexandria's Flock page now lists the 161 Virginia agencies that can search its cameras
- New chapter on the network: DeFlock Alexandria (Alexandria, Virginia)
What you can do in Alexandria
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 Alexandria
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).