Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed
Are there Flock cameras in Baltimore, Maryland?
Baltimore is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.
Are there Flock cameras in Baltimore, Maryland?
Our records document automated license plate reader use in Baltimore, Maryland recorded for Baltimore Police Department and Maryland Transportation Authority, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 44 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 15 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
- Agencies
- Baltimore Police Department and Maryland Transportation Authority
- Records on file
- 2
- Mapped cameras inside boundary
- 44
- Source-tagged Flock Safety
- 15
- Latest cited source
- 8/24/2022
- Database last updated
- 2026-08-07
What's on file
Agency
Baltimore Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
County
County
No verified record currently in our database
State
Maryland (MD)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
In 2018, the Baltimore City Police Department scanned 17,367,521 license plates using automated license plate readers.
Verified deployment detail
Last verified 2026-08-10
Cameras / readers
Not publicly verified
Contract price
Not publicly verified
Contract start
Not publicly verified
Contract end
Not publicly verified
Data retention
Not publicly verified
Retention period as reported
9 months
Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05
Network participation
Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center (MCAC)
Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05
Data sharing documented
Not publicly verified
Date approved
Not publicly verified
Report date
March 5, 2025 (calendar year 2024 data)
Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05
ALPR policy
Not publicly verified
Contract / public record
Not publicly verified
Flock transparency portal
Not publicly verified
Deployment as reported
- Fixed sites
- 50 fixed
- Mobile systems
- 73 mobile
- Portable / trailer units
- 5 portable trailers
- Total as printed
- 128
Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05
Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05
Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05
Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05
Citations for this record
Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05
Every value above is transcribed from the linked document. Nothing is estimated or inferred, and claims circulating on social media are never published here. “Not publicly verified” means we have not found a reliable primary or reported source — never that the thing does not exist.
Sources · record AOS000190
- Maryland House Judiciary Committee Disclosure ↗02/22/2019
- Baltimore Police Department ↗06/03/2022
- Kris Halsey ↗8/24/2022
Agency
Maryland Transportation Authority
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Statewide
County
No verified record currently in our database
State
Maryland (MD)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
In 2018, the Maryland Transportation Authority scanned 206,900,888 license plates using automated license plate readers.
Verified deployment detail
Last verified 2026-08-10
Cameras / readers
Not publicly verified
Contract price
Not publicly verified
Contract start
Not publicly verified
Contract end
Not publicly verified
Data retention
Not publicly verified
Retention period as reported
14 days on the MDTA server
Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05
Network participation
Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center (MCAC)
Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05
Data sharing documented
Not publicly verified
Date approved
Not publicly verified
Report date
March 5, 2025 (calendar year 2024 data)
Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05
ALPR policy
Not publicly verified
Contract / public record
Not publicly verified
Flock transparency portal
Not publicly verified
Deployment as reported
- Fixed sites
- 9 fixed locations
- Fixed cameras / readers
- 86 cameras at fixed locations
- Mobile systems
- 19 mobile units
- Mobile cameras / readers
- 38 cameras on mobile units
- Total as printed
- 124 cameras
Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05
Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05
Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05
Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05
Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05
Citations for this record
Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05
Every value above is transcribed from the linked document. Nothing is estimated or inferred, and claims circulating on social media are never published here. “Not publicly verified” means we have not found a reliable primary or reported source — never that the thing does not exist.
Sources · record AOS000195
- Maryland House Judiciary Committee Disclosure ↗02/22/2019
- Capital News Service ↗12/10/2019
What this record does not say
These entries document that an agency has been reported to use ALPR technology. They do not establish camera counts, exact locations, cost, retention periods or sharing policies unless the linked source says so.
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Sources & records
Everything on this page traces back to the records below. Where a record carries no linked document, we say so instead of filling the gap.
Documented deployment records
- Maryland House Judiciary Committee Disclosure ↗Baltimore Police Department · 02/22/2019 · record AOS000190
- Baltimore Police Department ↗Baltimore Police Department · 06/03/2022 · record AOS000190
- Kris Halsey ↗Baltimore Police Department · 8/24/2022 · record AOS000190
- Maryland House Judiciary Committee Disclosure ↗Maryland Transportation Authority · 02/22/2019 · record AOS000195
- Capital News Service ↗Maryland Transportation Authority · 12/10/2019 · record AOS000195
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
Community-mapped camera locations
44 mapped camera points inside the Baltimore boundary, from OpenStreetMap contributors via the DeFlock ↗ dataset (ODbL). Each point links to its own OpenStreetMap record in the camera list on this page.
Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.
Nearby documented deployments
Other Maryland communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
- AnnapolisALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- College ParkALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- EdgewoodALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- ElktonALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- Ellicott CityALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- Forest HeightsVerified Flock
- GaithersburgALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- GlenardenALPR — vendor unconfirmed
Camera counts, contract prices, retention and sharing policies are shown only where we found a primary source. Where they're missing, the information is not publicly verified — see the Flock Files for the documents we do have.
Data attribution
Portions of the surveillance deployment data on this site come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org ↗ Are You Flocked? is independent and is not affiliated with the EFF or Flock Safety. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
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