Flock & ALPR Cameras in Congress Heights, District of Columbia
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Congress Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Congress Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Congress Heights itself.
The rest sit in Washington (3).
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.
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No new reports near Congress Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:00 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Congress Heights
The readers mapped around Congress Heights break down as 3 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Metro Police Department. Every report here dates to Mar 2026.
- Atlantic Street Southeast — 3 readers
Congress Heights 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 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: Metro Police Department (3).
What’s watching Congress Heights
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 Congress Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Congress Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Congress Heights
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 Congress Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).