Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fort Lee, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Fort Lee — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Fort Lee, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Fort Lee itself.
The rest sit in Hopewell (6), Petersburg (2), Prince George (2).
10 of them name an operator in the record: Hopewell Police Department (6), Lowe's (3), Petersburg Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Fort Lee in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Fort Lee
The readers mapped around Fort Lee break down as 13 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Hopewell Police Department, Lowe's, Petersburg Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Oaklawn Boulevard — 5 readers
- Waterside Road — 2 readers
- Jefferson Park Road — 2 readers
- Cedar Level Road — 1 reader
- East Washington Street — 1 reader
- Lowes Drive — 1 reader
- County Drive — 1 reader
Fort Lee in the Prince George County picture
Prince George County has 13 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,012 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 42,873 residents and 1,295 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 43.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic. Operators named on the record: Hopewell Police Department (6), Lowe's (3), Petersburg Police Department (1).
What’s watching Fort Lee
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 Fort Lee — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fort Lee (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Fort Lee
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 Fort Lee
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).