Flock & ALPR Cameras in District Heights, Maryland
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around District Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of District Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside District Heights itself.
The rest sit in Forestville (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in District Heights
The readers mapped around District Heights break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- District Heights Parkway — 1 reader
- Addison Road — 1 reader
- Atwood Street — 1 reader
- Rochell Avenue — 1 reader
- Mason Street — 1 reader
- Marlboro Pike — 1 reader
- Walters Lane — 1 reader
District Heights MD PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, District Heights MD PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 45 other agencies.
District Heights in the Prince George's County picture
Prince George's County has 115 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,669 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 955,584 residents and 3,193 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 17.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
Camera activity around District Heights, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for District Heights. Latest change logged Aug 16, 2026.
What’s watching District 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 District Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to District 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 District 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 District Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).