Flock & ALPR Cameras in Gainesville, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Gainesville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Gainesville
The readers mapped around Gainesville break down as 3 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Gateway Center Drive — 3 readers
- Daves Store Lane — 1 reader
Gainesville 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 4 traffic.
Camera activity around Gainesville, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Gainesville. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.
What’s watching Gainesville
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 Gainesville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Gainesville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Gainesville
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 Gainesville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).