Flock & ALPR Cameras in H Street NE, District of Columbia
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around H Street NE — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of H Street NE, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside H Street NE itself.
The rest sit in Washington (7).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Metro Police Department (4). 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 H Street NE in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in H Street NE
The readers mapped around H Street NE break down as 7 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Metro Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- 16th Street Northeast — 3 readers
- H Street Northeast — 2 readers
- C Street Northeast — 1 reader
- 17th Street Northeast — 1 reader
H Street NE 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 6 traffic. Operators named on the record: Metro Police Department (4).
What’s watching H Street NE
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 H Street NE — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to H Street NE (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in H Street NE
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 H Street NE
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).