Cameras / District of Columbia / Washington
License plate readers in Washington, DC
Volunteers have documented 91 automated license plate readers inside Washington. Washington is the only District of Columbia city where volunteers have documented ten or more readers. Its density of 1.5 per square mile places Washington near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 92% — are Flock Safety units. Volunteers also recorded non-government operators here, including The Home Depot.
Updated August 14, 2026.
91
readers documented
1.5
per square mile
1st
of 1 indexed District of Columbia city
100%
of District of Columbia’s documented total
Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Who makes them
- Flock Safety84 · 92%
- Motorola Solutions3 · 3%
- Genetec3 · 3%
- Leonardo/ELSAG1 · 1%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 72 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Metro Police Department (30), The Home Depot (2), DC Metropolitan Police Department (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (6), mobile monitoring trailer (1)
- Coverage area
- 61.1 square miles of land inside city limits.
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
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