Fairfax City has two important programs to help monitor unsafe driving and encourage drivers to follow traffic laws: Respect Red, in which cameras are installed at city road intersections with high rates of traffic incidents due to red light violations; and Speed Enforcement, in which cameras are installed in school zones and road construction zones in the city.

Signs near the intersections inform drivers of the camera locations. Multiple cameras monitor traffic at these intersections. Numerous people, including city police officers, review evidence before citations are issued to the registered owner of the vehicle.

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RESPECT RED

Respect Red has installed photo red light cameras in city road intersections with high rates of traffic incidents due to red light violations:

• Fairfax Boulevard (Route 29/50):
  • at Fairfax Circle (eastbound & westbound)
  • at Jermantown Road (eastbound & westbound)
  • at Fair Woods Parkway (eastbound)
• Main Street (Route 29)
  • at Jermantown Road (southbound)
• Main Street (Route 236):
  • at Pickett Road (westbound)
  • at Woodland Drive (eastbound)
• North Street (Route 236) at University Drive (eastbound & westbound)

Please read City Code Section 98-21 for information regarding photo red light enforcement.

Link to enabling Virginia State Code can be found here.

The vehicle’s registered owner receives a notice of violation and secure PIN number to access the citation online. To request a copy of the citation, call toll-free: 1-855-710-0957.

The fine associated with the citation may be pre-paid on the website. Click here to pay a Respect Red citation, or call toll-free: 1-855-710-0957.

Citations may be challenged in city traffic court, and registered owners who are not driving the vehicle when the citation is recorded may sign a sworn affidavit to nullify the citation. See the citation for more information.

If you wish to challenge a red-light citation in the City of Fairfax General District Court, please email the request to rred@fairfaxva.gov.  Please include your name and Citation Number.

Information: email.

SPEED ENFORCEMENT

Speed enforcement cameras have been installed in school zones on Blenheim Boulevard, Route 236/Main Street, and Jermantown Road, near the city's four schools and two Fairfax County schools (Woodson High School and Frost Middle School). Additionally, portable cameras are available to enforce reduced speed limits in highway work zones to protect city work crews and contractors working in the right of way.

Speed enforcement cameras became operational on 8/22/2022 to coincide with the opening of the 2022 - 2023 school year.

Current speed enforcement times and locations:

Woodson High School Zone (7 -8:25 a.m. and 2-3:25 p.m.)
Frost Middle School Zone (7-8:25 a.m. and 2-3:25 p.m.)

• Main Street (Route 236):
  • at Whitacre Road (eastbound)
  • at Pickett Road (westbound)

Fairfax High School Zone (7:40-8:25 a.m. and 2:40-3:25 p.m.)

• Fairfax Boulevard (Route 29/50):
  • at Lion Run (eastbound and westbound)
• Blenheim Boulevard (Route 237):
  • at Country Hill Drive (northbound)

Katherine Johnson Middle School Zone (7-7:45 a.m. and 2-2:45 p.m.)
Providence Elementary School Zone (8:10-8:55 a.m. and 3:10-3:55 p.m.)

• Jermantown Road (Route 655):
  • near Kutner Park (northbound)
  • at Gainsborough Court (southbound)

Daniels Run Elementary School Zone (8:30-9:15 a.m. and 2:45-4:15 p.m.)
St. Leo the Great Catholic School Zone (7:30-8:15 a.m. and 2:45-4:15 p.m.)

• Blenheim Boulevard (Route 237):
  • near Van Dyck Park (northbound)

Please read City Code Section 98-22 for information regarding use of speed monitoring devices.

Click here to read enabling Code of Virginia § 46.2-882.1.

The vehicle’s registered owner receives a notice of violation and secure PIN number to access the citation online. To request a copy of the citation, call toll-free: 1-855-710-0957.

The fine associated with the citation may be pre-paid on the website. Click here to pay a Speed Enforcement citation, or call toll-free: 1-855-710-0957.

Citations may be challenged in city traffic court, and registered owners who are not driving the vehicle when the citation is recorded may sign a sworn affidavit. See the citation for more information.

If you wish to challenge a speed citation in the City of Fairfax General District Court, please email the request to rred@fairfaxva.gov.  Note, upon contesting your speed citation, an additional $66 in court costs will be added to any prepayments or convictions as per Virginia State Law.  Please include your name and Citation Number.

Information: email.