Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Gate, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around West Gate — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Gate, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside West Gate itself.
The rest sit in Sudley (3), Manassas (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near West Gate in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:57 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in West Gate
The readers mapped around West Gate break down as 3 Flock Safety, 1 Axon Enterprise. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in May 2026.
- Lomond Drive — 1 reader
- Irongate Way — 1 reader
- Portsmouth Road — 1 reader
- Sudley Road — 1 reader
West Gate 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.
What’s watching West Gate
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 West Gate — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Gate (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in West Gate
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 West Gate
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).