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District of Columbia · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Van Ness, District of Columbia

Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Van Ness — 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 Van Ness, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Van Ness 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
#20
of 38 District of Columbia cities tracked
1.3%
of District of Columbia’s reported cameras
Live camera map 2 reported cameras around Van Ness, 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 Van Ness

No new reports near Van Ness in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 02:02 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Van Ness

The readers mapped around Van Ness break down as 2 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Sep 2025.

  • Upton Street Northwest — 1 reader
  • Connecticut Avenue Northwest — 1 reader

Van Ness 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 Van Ness

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

What you can do in Van Ness

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 Van Ness

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