Flock & ALPR Cameras in Dale City, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Dale City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Dale City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Dale City itself.
The rest sit in Leesylvania (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Dale City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Dale City
The readers mapped around Dale City break down as 12 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Brazil Circle — 3 readers
- Brahms Drive — 3 readers
- Dale Boulevard — 2 readers
- Richmond Highway — 1 reader
- Darbydale Avenue — 1 reader
- Barnabas Trail — 1 reader
- Prince William Parkway — 1 reader
Dale City in the Prince William County picture
Prince William County has 80 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,508 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 484,625 residents and 2,190 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic.
Camera activity around Dale City, last 30 days
31 removed in our hourly change log for Dale City. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.
What’s watching Dale City
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 Dale City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Dale City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Dale City
What you can do in Dale City
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.
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Cameras near Dale City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).