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Are there Flock cameras in Forest Heights, Maryland?
Yep. Forest Heights is flocked.
Are there Flock cameras in Forest Heights, Maryland?
Yes. Public records in our database document Flock Safety automated license plate readers in Forest Heights, Maryland recorded for Forest Heights Police Department. Separately, 3 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 3 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
- Agency
- Forest Heights Police Department
- Vendor
- Flock Safety
- County
- Prince George's County
- Records on file
- 1
- Mapped cameras inside boundary
- 3
- Source-tagged Flock Safety
- 3
- Latest cited source
- 5/1/2024
- Database last updated
- 2026-08-07
What's on file
Agency
Forest Heights Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Prince George's County
State
Maryland (MD)
Vendor
Flock Safety
As of April 2024, the Forest Heights Police Department operates 11 Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.
Verified deployment detail
Last verified 2026-08-10
Vendor named by source
Flock Safety
Government reportMaryland State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗2025-03-05
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
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
- 10 Fixed LPR sites
- Fixed cameras / readers
- 4 individual 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
Figures as reported by the agency; the source is internally inconsistent. Printed verbatim: "a total of 10 Fixed LPR sites (4 individual cameras)". The two figures do not agree in the source and are reproduced unchanged.
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 AOS013651
- Flock Safety ↗
- The News & Observer ↗5/1/2024
- The News & Observer ↗5/1/2024
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
- Flock Safety ↗Forest Heights Police Department · record AOS013651
- The News & Observer ↗Forest Heights Police Department · 5/1/2024 · record AOS013651
- The News & Observer ↗Forest Heights Police Department · 5/1/2024 · record AOS013651
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
Community-mapped camera locations
3 mapped camera points inside the Forest Heights 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.
- College ParkALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- GlenardenALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- LandoverALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- AnnapolisALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- BaltimoreALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- EdgewoodALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- ElktonALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- Ellicott CityALPR — 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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