Flock Cameras in Virginia: Map, Locations & Count

Virginia records 3,432 mapped plate readers across 227 operators. Fairfax County Sheriff's Office runs the largest share at 5%, ahead of Norfolk Police Department on 180. Every count on this page is measured inside the state line, so it's a floor for the state — not an estimate stitched together from overlapping city boxes. 860 of the 3,432 cameras carry no operator at all, so the operator shares above are shares of the attributed cameras. Since 5 October 2026 the in-state count moved from 3,418 to 3,432 (+14).

Virginia Beach, Richmond have full pages with operator, vendor and direction breakdowns; the other metros are covered by the live map. Metro figures are read as bounding boxes around each city centre, so neighbouring metros can overlap and the boxes reach past city limits — never add them up. The state total above is counted inside the state boundary instead, which is why it is the number to quote.

Read the operator column two ways. By size, Fairfax County Sheriff's Office dominates with 182 cameras (5% of the state). By count, the other 226 operators run the remaining 95% between them, and 1 of the top eight is a county sheriff rather than city forces.

Where the map has no operator tag, the operator is inferred from the surrounding jurisdiction; that applies to 1,367 of 3,432 cameras in Virginia. Treat names as likely, not certain.

'Flock camera' is shorthand here, not the whole story: 92% of vendor-tagged cameras in Virginia are Flock Safety, and Axis Communications accounts for 61. 818 cameras are unattributed to any vendor.

The map knows which way 90% of Virginia's cameras face (3,105 of 3,432). Mounts, where recorded: pole (1,401), street lamp (103), wall (18), post (6).

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.