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Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed

Are there Flock cameras in Frederick, Maryland?

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

Are there Flock cameras in Frederick, Maryland?

Our records document automated license plate reader use in Frederick, Maryland recorded for Frederick County Sheriff's Office, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 42 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 17 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.

Agency
Frederick County Sheriff's Office
County
Frederick County
Records on file
1
Mapped cameras inside boundary
42
Source-tagged Flock Safety
17
Latest cited source
2025-03-05
Database last updated
2026-08-07
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What's on file

Agency

Frederick County Sheriff's Office

Agency type

Sheriff's Office

Jurisdiction

Frederick County

County

Frederick County

State

Maryland (MD)

Vendor

No verified record currently in our database

The Maryland State Police / MCAC consolidated LPR report for calendar year 2024 records 3 license plate reader units for the Frederick County Sheriff's Office, retained for 365 days. The report does not name a vendor. Figures for the separate Frederick City Police Department are not published here because they appear only as an unreadable image in the source document.

Verified deployment detail

Last verified 2026-08-10

Cameras / readers

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

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 mdsp-frederick-county-so

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

42 mapped camera points inside the Frederick 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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