Flock & ALPR Cameras in Downtown DC, District of Columbia
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Downtown DC — 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 Downtown DC, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Downtown DC 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 Downtown DC in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 23, 02:49 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Downtown DC
The readers mapped around Downtown DC break down as 1 Motorola Solutions. Every report here dates to Aug 2026.
- Independence Avenue Southwest — 1 reader
Downtown DC 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 Downtown DC
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 Downtown DC — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Downtown DC (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Downtown DC
What you can do in Downtown DC
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 Downtown DC
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).