Flock & ALPR Cameras in Dumfries, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Dumfries — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Paused
Dumfries is on the record here. Dumfries, VA pausing installation of Flock cameras
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Dumfries, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Dumfries itself.
The rest sit in Cherry Hill (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Dumfries
The readers mapped around Dumfries break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Richmond Highway — 2 readers
- Graham Park Road — 2 readers
- Van Buren Road — 1 reader
- Old Triangle Road — 1 reader
- Batestown Road — 1 reader
Dumfries VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Dumfries VA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 4 other agencies.
Dumfries 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 7 traffic.
Camera activity around Dumfries, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Dumfries. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching Dumfries
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 Dumfries — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Dumfries (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Dumfries
- Dumfries pumps the brakes on Flock cameras rollout – WTOP News
- Dumfries pumps the brakes on Flock cameras rollout
- Dumfries, VA pausing installation of Flock cameras
- Dumfries Town Council votes 4-2 to remove Flock cameras
What you can do in Dumfries
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 Dumfries
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).