Flock & ALPR Cameras in McLean, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around McLean — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of McLean, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside McLean itself.
The rest sit in Tysons (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Virginia State Police (2). 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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No new reports near McLean in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in McLean
The readers mapped around McLean break down as 8 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Virginia State Police. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Capital Beltway — 2 readers
- Mackall Farms Lane — 2 readers
- Centrillion Drive — 2 readers
- Ridge Drive — 1 reader
- Pine Hill Road — 1 reader
- George Washington Memorial Parkway — 1 reader
- Carlton Place — 1 reader
McLean 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 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: Virginia State Police (2).
Camera activity around McLean, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for McLean. Latest change logged Aug 26, 2026.
What’s watching McLean
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 McLean — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to McLean (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around McLean
- 2 new license plate readers reported around McLean, VA
- McLean County Sheriff Department license plate camera data shared with federal immigration agencies without permission
- McLean County Board OKs license plate cameras near LeRoy
- McLean County Board approves new precinct maps ; delays vote on license plate cameras for LeRoy
What you can do in McLean
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 McLean
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).