Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rosslyn, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Rosslyn — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 27 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Rosslyn, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Rosslyn itself.
The rest sit in Arlington (27).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Simon Property Group (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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- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Rosslyn
The readers mapped around Rosslyn break down as 24 Flock Safety, 1 Leonardo, 1 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Simon Property Group. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Pentagon Access Road — 4 readers
- Army Navy Drive — 3 readers
- North Boundary Drive — 3 readers
- Wilson Boulevard — 3 readers
- South Hayes Street — 1 reader
- 27 Trail — 1 reader
- Connector Road — 1 reader
- 15th Street South — 1 reader
- Airport Connector — 1 reader
- West Entrance Road — 1 reader
- Mount Vernon Trail — 1 reader
- George Washington Memorial Parkway — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Rosslyn — all on the live map above.
Rosslyn in the District of Columbia picture
District of Columbia has 78 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,685 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 672,079 residents and 476 road miles. By road density that is 0.16 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 21 traffic. Operators named on the record: Simon Property Group (1).
Camera activity around Rosslyn, last 30 days
5 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for Rosslyn. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Rosslyn
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 Rosslyn — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rosslyn (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Rosslyn
What you can do in Rosslyn
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 Rosslyn
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).