A school zone speed camera just outside Greenbelt has raised concern among local drivers who say they received citations despite believing they were not speeding, prompting questions about whether the device is accurately recording vehicle speeds. The camera, located on eastbound Greenbelt Road near the T-Mobile store, is operated by the Town of Berwyn Heights using an automated enforcement system provided by Altumint Inc.
This is the same company responsible for a camera in Riverdale Park that was removed following residents’ reports of inaccurate tickets last year (see the Streetcar Suburbs October 30, 2025 issue for more.) Altumint is also responsible for the speed camera on Crescent Road between Greenhill Road and Northway, for which the News Review is unaware of inaccurate ticket reports.
Several drivers told the Greenbelt News Review they received repeated tickets from the same camera, and did not believe the speeds listed on said tickets.
Kevin Pinto of College Park said he received a citation from the Greenbelt Road camera earlier this year that he believed was inaccurate. “It said I was going 50 miles per hour,” Pinto said. “This is impossible.”
Pinto said he paid that ticket because he did not have enough information to challenge it. He said a later citation issued to his daughter prompted him to review dash-cam footage from the vehicle.
The footage showed his daughter driving 35 miles per hour and then slowing to 33 near the camera, while the citation listed 48 miles per hour. Pinto said he submitted the footage to Berwyn Heights officials, and a town representative later told him police reviewed the information and decided to void the citation.
Lee Ealley, also of College Park, said his household has received roughly 10 tickets from the camera, sometimes only days apart. “It’s erratic as hell,” Ealley said, adding that even after he became aware of the camera’s location and adjusted his driving, the tickets continued to arrive.
Ealley, who drives the road multiple times a day, said most citations listed similar speeds, often close to the minimum required for a ticket. Maryland law allows for speed cameras to issue citations only when a vehicle is traveling at least 12 miles per hour over the posted speed limit.
Over time, the repeated fines became frustrating, he said, even if each citation was relatively small. “I’m not Rockefeller,” he said. “When you pile up $40 at a time, it adds up.”
Ealley said he paid most of the citations rather than contesting them. Speed camera citations are civil violations, and drivers who wish to challenge them must request a court date.
The Greenbelt Road camera generates, on average, 930 citations per month and has the third highest volume of Berwyn Heights’ four active cameras, according to Altumint. Town officials told Greenbelt News Review that in 2025 the speed cameras produced $759,710 in revenue for the town.
Pinto said his concerns about the Greenbelt Road camera were shaped by prior experiences with speed cameras operated by the same vendor in other parts of Prince George’s County. In the Riverdale Park area, Pinto said he received multiple tickets from speed cameras installed by Altumint. In those cases, he spent significant time analyzing video evidence, timestamps and roadway markings to calculate his speed. “I don’t mind suffering the consequences when I do something wrong,” Pinto said. “But I definitely don’t want to pay for something that I know I didn’t do.”
Pinto emphasized that he does not believe every speed camera citation is inaccurate, noting that his family has paid tickets in cases where dash-cam footage confirmed the recorded speed. But he said his experience has left him concerned about how disputes are handled and how much responsibility falls on drivers to disprove citations they believe are incorrect.
In documents provided by Berwyn Heights officials, vendors for the town’s Automated Red-Light and Speed Camera Enforcement Program are responsible for providing a complete turnkey system, including installation, operation, maintenance, calibration, image review, citation processing and customer service support.
The town has cited safety concerns along Greenbelt Road as justification for automated enforcement. Officials noted that crash rates along that road are significantly higher than the state average, with 13 injury crashes and 63 property-damage crashes recorded between January 2024 and April 2025 between Greenbelt Station Parkway and Kenilworth Avenue.
Stephen Lotz is a University of Maryland student at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism interning with the Greenbelt News Review.
