Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed
Are there Flock cameras in Hagerstown, Maryland?
Hagerstown is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.
Are there Flock cameras in Hagerstown, Maryland?
Our records document automated license plate reader use in Hagerstown, Maryland recorded for Hagerstown Police Department, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 17 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 14 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
- Agency
- Hagerstown Police Department
- County
- Washington County
- Records on file
- 1
- Mapped cameras inside boundary
- 17
- Source-tagged Flock Safety
- 14
- Latest cited source
- 2025-03-05
- Database last updated
- 2026-08-07
What's on file
Agency
Hagerstown Police Department
Agency type
Police Department
Jurisdiction
Hagerstown, Washington County
County
Washington 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 5 license plate readers for the Hagerstown Police Department — 5 mobile, 0 fixed. Reads are held on a local server and the report states none were submitted to MCAC. The report does not name a vendor.
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
Held on a local server; the report states 0 reads submitted to MCAC
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
- 0 fixed
- Mobile systems
- 5 mobile
- Total as printed
- 5 readers
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
Figures as reported by the agency; the source is internally inconsistent. The report prints 1,309,506 reads retained against 1,253,236 reads made — shown as printed.
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 mdsp-hagerstown-pd
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 State Police / MCAC — LPR Program Consolidated Report, Public Safety Art. §3-509(e) (PDF) ↗Hagerstown Police Department · 2025-03-05 · record mdsp-hagerstown-pd
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
Community-mapped camera locations
17 mapped camera points inside the Hagerstown 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
- BaltimoreALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- College ParkALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- EdgewoodALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- ElktonALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- Ellicott CityALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- Forest HeightsVerified Flock
- GaithersburgALPR — 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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