Flock & ALPR Cameras in Black Forest, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 23 automated license plate readers in and around Black Forest — 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 Black Forest, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Black Forest itself.
The rest sit in Colorado Springs (18), Falcon (5).
6 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (4), Lowe's (2). 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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- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Axon Enterprise camera newly reported
- Sep 8 Axon Enterprise camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Black Forest
The readers mapped around Black Forest break down as 16 Flock Safety, 4 Axon Enterprise, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Duryea Drive — 6 readers
- Lee Vance View — 3 readers
- East Woodmen Road — 3 readers
- US 24;CO 4 — 2 readers
- North Powers Boulevard — 2 readers
- Meridian Road — 2 readers
- Royal Pine Drive — 1 reader
- Promenade Drive — 1 reader
- Golden Sage Road — 1 reader
- Black Forest Road — 1 reader
Black Forest in the El Paso County picture
El Paso County has 193 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,135 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 736,008 residents and 5,587 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 18.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic, 1 parking, 1 traffic,_area. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (4), Lowe's (2).
Camera activity around Black Forest, last 30 days
6 newly reported in our hourly change log for Black Forest. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Black Forest
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 Black Forest — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Black Forest (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Black Forest
- Sheep flock fortifying soil while reducing fire fuels in Black Forest
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Black Forest, CO
What you can do in Black Forest
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 Black Forest
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).