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What is documented about automated license plate surveillance in Washington — and what is still an open question.
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That is a gap in our coverage, not a finding about your town. The map below is centred where you searched, and shows any camera coordinates volunteers have recorded there — which is a different question from what your government operates.
The fastest way to change that is a surveillance inventory request: it asks your government to list the technology it runs, in its own words. It is one email, any resident can send it, and the answer is what turns a blank space on this map into a record.
Yes. Volunteers have recorded 2,187 automated license plate reader camera locations in Washington, across 33 counties. That is a floor, not an inventory — it counts what someone has mapped, not what exists.
Known ALPR locations
Coverage incomplete
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2,187 mapped camera coordinates · 42 jurisdiction records · 50 of 50 states have data. Camera coordinates © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Boundaries and roads: US Census, public domain. Roads are drawn for orientation only — a camera near a road is not a claim about which road it watches.
Pinned to Washington. Open the national Atlas to compare with neighbouring states.
Vendor attribution as recorded by OpenStreetMap contributors. Where a contributor did not identify the vendor the record reads “Unspecified” — that is an unrecorded fact, not a vendorless camera.
| Vendor | Mapped cameras | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Flock Safety | 1,912 | 87.4% |
| Unspecified | 80 | 3.7% |
| Neology | 44 | 2.0% |
| Rekor | 37 | 1.7% |
| Avigilon | 24 | 1.1% |
| Kapsch | 24 | 1.1% |
| Axis Communications | 19 | 0.9% |
| Axon | 13 | 0.6% |
| LiveView Technologies | 12 | 0.5% |
| Motorola Solutions | 10 | 0.5% |
| Leonardo/Elsag | 8 | 0.4% |
| Genetec | 3 | 0.1% |
| Verkada | 1 | 0.0% |
2,187 mapped cameras assigned to the county containing them. The 21 remaining counties with at least one mapped camera are in the open data.
Every decision we hold for Washington, most recent first. The Decision Record exists because deployment databases record arrivals and not reversals.
Developments in Washington.
The cameras had already been switched off for three months. The council covered them anyway — which tells you what a switch is worth once a city has stopped believing the dashboard.
Twenty-one day deletion, a bar on federal and out-of-state access to publicly owned camera data, prohibited locations, and a private right to sue. It took effect the day it was signed.
These are not about Washington specifically. They govern the cameras in it.
More than 400 events in nearly every state, organised by DeFlock. Council meetings, records requests, information sessions. The organisers say plainly what it is not.
Get the Flock Out coordinates state affiliates, model legislation, and litigation. It also publishes figures — and one of them is testable against our own map.
The largest ALPR vendor in American policing announced real, substantial limits on its own product. It also left the one question this campaign is about exactly where it was.
10 open questions carried by records in this state. Each one is published rather than left blank, because an unresolved question a resident can answer is worth more than a page that looks finished.
We hold records for 3 Washington jurisdictions. There are far more than that. A single records request from a resident often establishes more than weeks of desk research.
The largest 40 of 150 places we can put on the map. Selecting one centres the map there. A place appearing here says nothing about whether it has cameras — it is a label, and the camera layer is separate and incomplete.