Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed
Are there Flock cameras in Towson, Maryland?
Towson is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.
Are there Flock cameras in Towson, Maryland?
Our records document automated license plate reader use in Towson, Maryland recorded for Baltimore County Police Department and Towson University Police Department, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 11 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 9 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
- Agencies
- Baltimore County Police Department and Towson University Police Department
- County
- Baltimore County
- Records on file
- 2
- Mapped cameras inside boundary
- 11
- Source-tagged Flock Safety
- 9
- Latest cited source
- 12/10/2019
- Database last updated
- 2026-08-07
What's on file
Agency
Baltimore County Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
County
County
Baltimore County
State
Maryland (MD)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
In 2018, the Baltimore County Police Department scanned 23,886,915 license plates using automated license plate readers.
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
1 year
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
- Total as printed
- 66 readers
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 states 66 readers without a fixed/mobile split.
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 AOS000189
- Maryland House Judiciary Committee Disclosure ↗02/22/2019
- Capital News Service ↗12/10/2019
Agency
Towson University Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
University
County
Baltimore County
State
Maryland (MD)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
In 2018, the Towson University Police Department scanned 3,676,764 license plates using automated license plate readers. The University has a total of 6 fixed ALPR sites with 10 cameras and one mobile unit
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
None retained locally (24-hour rolling window)
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
- 6 Fixed LPR sites
- Fixed cameras / readers
- 10 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
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 AOS000198
- Maryland House Judiciary Committee Disclosure ↗02/22/2019
- 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 ↗Baltimore County Police Department · 02/22/2019 · record AOS000189
- Capital News Service ↗Baltimore County Police Department · 12/10/2019 · record AOS000189
- Maryland House Judiciary Committee Disclosure ↗Towson University Police Department · 02/22/2019 · record AOS000198
- Maryland House Judiciary Committee Disclosure ↗Towson University Police Department · 02/22/2019 · record AOS000198
- Capital News Service ↗Towson University Police Department · 12/10/2019 · record AOS000198
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
Community-mapped camera locations
11 mapped camera points inside the Towson 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.
- PikesvilleALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- AnnapolisALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- BaltimoreALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- College ParkALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- EdgewoodALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- ElktonALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- Ellicott CityALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- Forest HeightsVerified Flock
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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