Flock & ALPR Cameras in Herndon, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Herndon — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Herndon, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 17 of them sit inside Herndon itself.
The rest sit in Reston (4), Hutchison (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Herndon
The readers mapped around Herndon break down as 21 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Laurel Way — 3 readers
- Elden Street — 3 readers
- Sunset Hills Road — 2 readers
- Dulles Access Road — 2 readers
- Herndon — 1 reader
- Jonquil Lane — 1 reader
- Spring Street — 1 reader
- Alabama Drive — 1 reader
- Van Buren Street — 1 reader
- Parcher Avenue — 1 reader
- Westcourt Lane — 1 reader
- Alton Square — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Herndon — all on the live map above.
Herndon VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Herndon VA PD runs 11 cameras of its own, has logged 36 plate-database searches, has captured 317,688 vehicle records. Its network connects to 77 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Herndon in the Fairfax County picture
Fairfax County has 249 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,315 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,144,474 residents and 3,084 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic.
What’s watching Herndon
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 Herndon — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Herndon (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Herndon
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 Herndon
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).