Flock & ALPR Cameras in Laurel, Maryland
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Laurel — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Laurel, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Laurel itself.
The rest sit in North Laurel (3), Maryland City (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (1), The Home Depot (1). 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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- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Laurel
The readers mapped around Laurel break down as 13 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Fort Meade Road — 3 readers
- Laurel — 2 readers
- Ashford Place — 2 readers
- Covered Wagon Drive — 2 readers
- Sylvan Still Road — 1 reader
- Mulberry Street — 1 reader
- Spring House Lane — 1 reader
- Baltimore Street — 1 reader
Laurel 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 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1), The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Laurel, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Laurel. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Laurel
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 Laurel — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Laurel (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Laurel
What you can do in Laurel
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 Laurel
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).