Flock & ALPR Cameras in Riverside, Maryland
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Riverside — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Riverside, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Riverside itself.
The rest sit in Columbia (14).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 7 Mobile Pro Systems camera newly reported
- Oct 7 Mobile Pro Systems camera newly reported
- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Riverside
The readers mapped around Riverside break down as 5 Flock Safety, 2 Genetec, 2 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Broken Land Parkway — 5 readers
- Grace Drive — 2 readers
- Simpson Mill Drive — 2 readers
- Columbia Pike — 1 reader
- Snowden River Parkway — 1 reader
Riverside in the Howard County picture
Howard County has 40 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,671 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 333,916 residents and 1,622 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 25% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic.
Camera activity around Riverside, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Riverside. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Riverside
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 Riverside — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Riverside (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Riverside
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Riverside, MD
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Riverside, MD
What you can do in Riverside
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 Riverside
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).