About DMV Camera Watch
Surveillance works both ways.
What We Do
DMV Camera Watch is an independent project tracking automated traffic enforcement — speed, red light, and bus-lane cameras — across Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Northern Virginia.
We map 12 jurisdictions, 1,495 cameras, and an estimated $372.3M in annual ticket revenue — sourced entirely from public records and government data APIs.
We provide an interactive map, per-camera violation data, revenue estimates, and enforcement trend analytics — all free, all ungated. Speed cameras, red light cameras, school zone cameras, work zone cameras: if it issues automated tickets in DC, Maryland, or Virginia, it's on our map.
Why We Exist
Governments across the DMV have deployed hundreds of cameras generating an estimated $372.3M in annual fines — mostly from speed cameras in Maryland and D.C. The public datasets behind those cameras are open records. We just built the tool to make them legible.
This is a transparency project, not an evasion guide. We don't tell you how to beat the cameras. We tell you where they are, how much money they generate, and what the ticket system actually looks like — because that's public data about public roads and you have a right to know it.
The same data governments use to build their case against you is available to you under open-records laws. We're just pointing it back.
The Legal Landscape
Automated camera tickets are civil violations, not criminal charges. No points. No insurance impact. In most jurisdictions, you can't even contest one in traffic court — you pay an administrative fine and move on.
Because these are civil fines rather than moving violations, they have no effect on your driving record or insurance premium. That said, unpaid tickets can lead to registration holds — so if you get one, deal with it.
Free to Use
DMV Camera Watch is free to use. The full camera map, violation data, revenue estimates, and enforcement analytics are all available without an account.
Methodology & Data Sources
Camera locations come from public agency feeds and records: the Maryland CHART network for live traffic cameras, jurisdiction open-data and ArcGIS layers, and public-records / FOIA disclosures for enforcement-camera sites.
Where a jurisdiction publishes violation counts, we report them directly. Estimated annual revenue is derived from reported violations multiplied by the jurisdiction's posted fine — never invented; jurisdictions that do not publish counts are shown as "No data reported," not estimated.
Live camera data refreshes from the CHART feed; enforcement data is updated as jurisdictions release new figures. Found an error? Tell us.