Flock & ALPR Cameras in Anacostia, District of Columbia
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Anacostia — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Anacostia, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Anacostia itself.
The rest sit in Washington (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Anacostia in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:20 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Anacostia
The readers mapped around Anacostia break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Mar 2026.
- Nicholson Street Southeast — 1 reader
Anacostia 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 1 traffic.
What’s watching Anacostia
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 Anacostia — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Anacostia (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Anacostia
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 Anacostia
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).