Flock & ALPR Cameras in Owings, Maryland
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Owings — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Owings, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Owings itself.
The rest sit in Friendship (2), Dunkirk (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Anne Arundel County Police (1), Calvert County Sheriff (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Owings in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 21, 02:02 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Owings
The readers mapped around Owings break down as 3 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Calvert County Sheriff, Anne Arundel County Police. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Mount Harmony Road — 1 reader
- North Solomons Island Road — 1 reader
- MD 2 — 1 reader
- Solomons Island Road — 1 reader
Owings in the Calvert County picture
Calvert County has 12 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,634 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 93,791 residents and 1,124 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 41.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: Calvert County Sheriff (1), Anne Arundel County Police (1).
Camera activity around Owings, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Owings. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Owings
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 Owings — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Owings (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Owings
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 Owings
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).