Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed
Are there Flock cameras in Ocean City, Maryland?
Ocean City is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.
Are there Flock cameras in Ocean City, Maryland?
Our records document automated license plate reader use in Ocean City, Maryland recorded for Ocean City Police Department, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 2 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary.
- Agency
- Ocean City Police Department
- County
- Worcester County
- Records on file
- 1
- Mapped cameras inside boundary
- 2
- Latest cited source
- 12/10/2019
- Database last updated
- 2026-08-07
What's on file
Agency
Ocean City Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Worcester County
State
Maryland (MD)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
In 2018, the Ocean City Police Department scanned 15,156,957 license plates using automated license plate readers. The police have one mobile unit and 12 cameras at fixed locations.
Verified deployment detail
Last verified 2026-08-10
Cameras / readers
"12" — Rte 50: 4 cameras, Rte 90: 2, 140th St: 6
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
60 days
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
Figures as reported by the agency; the source is internally inconsistent. The report is ambiguous about whether "12" counts sites or cameras.
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 AOS000196
- 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 ↗Ocean City Police Department · 02/22/2019 · record AOS000196
- Capital News Service ↗Ocean City Police Department · 12/10/2019 · record AOS000196
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
Community-mapped camera locations
2 mapped camera points inside the Ocean 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.
- 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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