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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mount Rainier, Maryland

Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Mount Rainier — 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 Mount Rainier, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Mount Rainier itself.

The rest sit in Hyattsville (1).

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

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Reported cameras nearby
#133
of 219 Maryland cities tracked
0.2%
of Maryland’s reported cameras
Live camera map 2 reported cameras around Mount Rainier, 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 Mount Rainier

No new reports near Mount Rainier in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 20:47 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Mount Rainier

The readers mapped around Mount Rainier break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Queens Chapel Road — 1 reader
  • Bunker Hill Road — 1 reader

Mount Rainier 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 2 traffic.

Camera activity around Mount Rainier, last 30 days

1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Mount Rainier. Latest change logged Aug 18, 2026.

What’s watching Mount Rainier

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

What you can do in Mount Rainier

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 Mount Rainier

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