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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Jonestown, Maryland

Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Jonestown — 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 Jonestown, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Jonestown itself.

The rest sit in Baltimore (2).

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

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2
Reported cameras nearby
#152
of 219 Maryland cities tracked
0.2%
of Maryland’s reported cameras
Live camera map 2 reported cameras around Jonestown, Maryland
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 Jonestown

No new reports near Jonestown in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:17 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Jonestown

The readers mapped around Jonestown break down as 1 Flock Safety, 1 Leonardo. Every report here dates to Dec 2025.

  • South President Street — 2 readers

Jonestown in the Baltimore city picture

Baltimore city has 42 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,877 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 577,193 residents and 1,050 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.6% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.

What’s watching Jonestown

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

What you can do in Jonestown

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 Jonestown

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