Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fairfax, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 43 automated license plate readers in and around Fairfax — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 43 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Fairfax, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 30 of them sit inside Fairfax itself.
The rest sit in George Mason (10), Oakton (3).
7 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (2), Mason PD (2), Fairfax City VA PD (1), Insight Public Sector (contracted by FCPD) (1), [Insight Public Sector(contracted by FCPD] (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 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Fairfax
The readers mapped around Fairfax break down as 43 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's, Mason PD, Fairfax City VA PD, [Insight Public Sector(contracted by FCPD], Insight Public Sector (contracted by FCPD). The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Main Street — 7 readers
- Jermantown Road — 4 readers
- Chain Bridge Road — 3 readers
- Fairfax Boulevard — 3 readers
- Fairfax Boulevard Service Road — 2 readers
- Campus Drive — 2 readers
- Mason Pond Drive — 2 readers
- University Drive — 2 readers
- Gainsborough Court — 2 readers
- Route 29 Service Road — 2 readers
- Blenheim Boulevard — 1 reader
- Patriot Circle — 1 reader
+ 12 more streets and roads mapped around Fairfax — all on the live map above.
Fairfax VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Fairfax VA PD runs 19 cameras of its own, has logged 70 plate-database searches, has captured 530,287 vehicle records.
Fairfax in the Fairfax city picture
Fairfax city has 34 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #50 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 2.3% nationally. That’s across 24,478 residents and 81 road miles. By road density that is 0.42 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 33 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (2), Mason PD (2), Fairfax City VA PD (1).
Camera activity around Fairfax, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Fairfax. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Fairfax
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 Fairfax — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fairfax (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Fairfax
- For Fairfax County Police, License Plate Readers are a Game Changer
- Victory ! Fairfax , Virginia Judge Finds That Local Police Use of ALPR Violates the State Data Act
- Victory Fairfax Virginia Judge Finds Local Police Use Alpr Violates States Data
- Victory Fairfax Virginia Judge Finds Local Police Use Alpr Violates State S Data Act
What you can do in Fairfax
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 Fairfax
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).