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District of Columbia · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Southwest Waterfront, District of Columbia

Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Southwest Waterfront — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Southwest Waterfront, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Southwest Waterfront itself.

The rest sit in Washington (2).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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2
Reported cameras nearby
#18
of 38 District of Columbia cities tracked
1.3%
of District of Columbia’s reported cameras
Live camera map 2 reported cameras around Southwest Waterfront, District of Columbia
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Southwest Waterfront
+0 this week +2 last 30 days
  • Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
  • Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Southwest Waterfront 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.

What’s watching Southwest Waterfront

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 Southwest Waterfront — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Southwest Waterfront (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Southwest Waterfront

What you can do in Southwest Waterfront

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.

Cameras near Southwest Waterfront

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).