Flock & ALPR Cameras in Arvada, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 23 automated license plate readers in and around Arvada — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 23 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Arvada, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 20 of them sit inside Arvada itself.
The rest sit in Wheat Ridge (3).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (1), Lowe's (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Arvada in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Arvada
The readers mapped around Arvada break down as 16 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make, 3 Leonardo. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West 52nd Avenue — 6 readers
- West 53rd Avenue — 3 readers
- West I-70 Frontage Road South — 3 readers
- Ralston Road — 2 readers
- West 58th Avenue — 2 readers
- Wadsworth Bypass — 2 readers
- West 55th Avenue — 2 readers
- West 51st Place — 1 reader
- Ward Road — 1 reader
- Holland Street — 1 reader
Arvada CO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Arvada CO PD has logged 340 plate-database searches, has captured 626,029 vehicle records. Its network connects to 84 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Adams County CO SO, Arapahoe County CO SO, Aurora CO PD, Avon CO PD, Boulder CO PD, Boulder County CO SO, Brighton CO PD, Broomfield CO PD.
Arvada in the Jefferson County picture
Jefferson County has 209 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #853 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 579,715 residents and 2,982 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 22 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1), Lowe's (1).
What’s watching Arvada
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Arvada — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Arvada (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Arvada
What you can do in Arvada
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Arvada
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).