Flock & ALPR Cameras in Potomac Mills, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Potomac Mills — 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 Potomac Mills, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Potomac Mills itself.
The rest sit in Woodbridge (10), Dale City (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Home Depot (1), Lowe's (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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No new reports near Potomac Mills in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Potomac Mills
The readers mapped around Potomac Mills break down as 22 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's, Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Minnieville Road — 3 readers
- Potomac Mills Circle — 3 readers
- Foulger Square — 2 readers
- Smoketown Road — 1 reader
- Caton Hill Road — 1 reader
- Biddeford Way — 1 reader
- New Bedford Road — 1 reader
- Lowell Way — 1 reader
- Nazarene Way — 1 reader
- Garza Way — 1 reader
- Shoppers Best Way — 1 reader
- Potomac Mills Road — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Potomac Mills — all on the live map above.
Potomac Mills 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 22 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1), Home Depot (1).
What’s watching Potomac Mills
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 Potomac Mills — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Potomac Mills (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Potomac Mills
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 Potomac Mills
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).