Flock & ALPR Cameras in Barracks Row, District of Columbia
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Barracks Row — 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 Barracks Row, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Barracks Row itself.
The rest sit in Washington (4).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Metro Police Department (3). 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.
Need this city’s camera data? Custom extracts are free for researchers, journalists and advocates. Ask for it.
No new reports near Barracks Row in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 20:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Barracks Row
The readers mapped around Barracks Row break down as 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Metro Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast — 2 readers
- I Street Southeast — 2 readers
Barracks Row 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 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Metro Police Department (3).
What’s watching Barracks Row
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 Barracks Row — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Barracks Row (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Barracks Row
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 Barracks Row
← All District of Columbia cameras, counties & cities
Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).