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Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed

Are there Flock cameras in Ellicott City, Maryland?

Ellicott City is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.

Are there Flock cameras in Ellicott City, Maryland?

Our records document automated license plate reader use in Ellicott City, Maryland recorded for Howard County Police Department, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 6 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 4 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.

Agency
Howard County Police Department
County
Howard County
Records on file
1
Mapped cameras inside boundary
6
Source-tagged Flock Safety
4
Latest cited source
12/10/2019
Database last updated
2026-08-07
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What's on file

Agency

Howard County Police Department

Agency type

Police

Jurisdiction

County

County

Howard County

State

Maryland (MD)

Vendor

No verified record currently in our database

In 2018, the Howard County Police Department scanned 2,134,862 license plates using automated license plate readers. The police used seven systems on marked police vehicles and three on unmarked police vehicles.

Verified deployment detail

Last verified 2026-08-10

Cameras / readers

12 marked-car, 5 unmarked, 5 pole-mounted and 2 trailer units itemised (24 listed)

Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05

Contract price

Not publicly verified

Contract start

Not publicly verified

Contract end

Not publicly verified

Data retention

Not publicly verified

Retention period as reported

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

ALPR policy

Not publicly verified

Contract / public record

Not publicly verified

Flock transparency portal

Not publicly verified

Deployment as reported

Figures as reported by the agency; the source is internally inconsistent. No combined total is printed. 2024 reads also differ between sources: the MCAC chart shows 19,557,006 and the HCPD letter shows 19,532,701.

Citations for this record

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 AOS000192

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

Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.

Community-mapped camera locations

6 mapped camera points inside the Ellicott City 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.

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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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