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Flock & ALPR Cameras in North Bethesda, Maryland

Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around North Bethesda — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of North Bethesda, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside North Bethesda itself.

The rest sit in Bethesda (4).

2 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (2). 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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Reported cameras nearby
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of 219 Maryland cities tracked
0.9%
of Maryland’s reported cameras
Live camera map 9 reported cameras around North Bethesda, Maryland
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Camera Watch Recently reported near North Bethesda

No new reports near North Bethesda in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:19 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in North Bethesda

The readers mapped around North Bethesda break down as 9 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Feb 2026.

  • Democracy Boulevard — 2 readers
  • Chapman Mill Drive — 2 readers
  • Auto Park Avenue — 1 reader
  • Motor City Drive — 1 reader
  • Antigua Terrace — 1 reader
  • Sugarbush Lane — 1 reader
  • Tuckerman Lane — 1 reader

North Bethesda in the Montgomery County picture

Montgomery County has 40 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #2,051 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,057,586 residents and 2,457 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 33.4% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (2).

What’s watching North Bethesda

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

What you can do in North Bethesda

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 North Bethesda

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