Flock & ALPR cameras in Delaware

Delaware's network is moderately concentrated: New Castle County Sheriff's Office runs 124 of the state's mapped cameras (28%), and the remaining 72% are split across 27 other agencies and businesses. Unlike metro-area counts, this figure is counted inside the state line, so nothing from neighbouring states leaks in. 98 of the 446 cameras carry no operator at all, so the operator shares above are shares of the attributed cameras.

Wilmington shows more cameras than the whole state because its box reaches across the state line into a neighbouring state's cameras. Metro rows come from a box around each city centre; they overlap where cities adjoin and can include cameras just over a state line. Use them to compare cities, and use the in-state total above for the state.

The top of the Delaware table is New Castle County Sheriff's Office at 124. What matters for anyone reading the map is how long the tail is — 28 operators in total, so most cameras belong to agencies that individually run only a handful. Private businesses appear too: of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 2 are privately operated.

Attribution is inferred from jurisdiction for 286 cameras and recorded directly for the rest. Counts are a floor: cameras appear on the map as people map them.

Vendor tags exist for 332 of Delaware's cameras, and Flock Safety takes 93% of those — but Motorola Solutions runs 15, which is why the map reads 'ALPR', not just 'Flock'.

Mounts recorded for Delaware: pole (100), post (5), street lamp (4), gantry (1). Bearing coverage is 93% — 413 cameras have a facing direction on the map, and those are the ones the avoidance layer can actually work with.

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.