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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Chantilly, Virginia

Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Chantilly — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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Reported cameras nearby

#51

of 307 Virginia cities tracked

0.4%

of Virginia’s reported cameras

Live camera map 14 reported cameras around Chantilly, Virginia

Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →

Camera Watch Recently reported near Chantilly

No new reports near Chantilly in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:59 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Chantilly

The readers mapped around Chantilly break down as 14 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's, Fairfax County Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.

Metrotech Drive — 6 readers
Brookfield Corporate Drive — 3 readers
Thunderbolt Place — 2 readers
Route 50 — 1 reader
Skyhawk Drive — 1 reader
Pepsi Place — 1 reader
Old Lee Road — 1 reader

Chantilly in the Fairfax County picture

Fairfax County has 249 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,315 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,144,474 residents and 3,084 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.4% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic, 1 entrance. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (2), Fairfax County Police Department (1).

What’s watching Chantilly

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 Chantilly — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Chantilly (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Chantilly

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 Chantilly

Greenbriar (19) Oak Hill (2) Floris (14) Centreville (13)

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).