Flock & ALPR Cameras in Silver Spring, Maryland
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Silver Spring — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Silver Spring
The readers mapped around Silver Spring break down as 2 Axon Enterprise, 1 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Montgomery College Public Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- King Street — 1 reader
- 16th Street — 1 reader
- Colesville Road — 1 reader
Silver Spring 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 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: Montgomery College Public Safety (1).
What’s watching Silver Spring
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 Silver Spring — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Silver Spring (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Silver Spring
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 Silver Spring
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).