Flock & ALPR Cameras in Boulder, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 58 automated license plate readers in and around Boulder — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Boulder
The readers mapped around Boulder break down as 56 Flock Safety, 1 Leonardo, 1 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Boulder Police Department, The Home Depot, University of Colorado Boulder. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- 30th Street — 12 readers
- Baseline Road — 6 readers
- Canyon Boulevard — 4 readers
- Arapahoe Avenue — 3 readers
- Table Mesa Drive — 3 readers
- Valmont Road — 3 readers
- Pearl Street — 2 readers
- Broadway — 2 readers
- Regent Drive — 2 readers
- Colorado Avenue — 2 readers
- Foothills Parkway — 2 readers
- 34th Street — 2 readers
+ 15 more streets and roads mapped around Boulder — all on the live map above.
Boulder CO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Boulder CO PD runs 31 cameras of its own, has logged 514 plate-database searches, has captured 581,670 vehicle records. Its network connects to 97 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Arapahoe County CO SO, Archuleta County CO SO, Arvada CO PD, Aurora CO PD, Avon CO PD, Basalt CO PD, Boulder County CO SO, Breckenridge CO PD.
Boulder in the Boulder County picture
Boulder County has 153 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #597 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 328,317 residents and 1,821 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 51 traffic. Operators named on the record: Boulder Police Department (32), The Home Depot (3), University of Colorado Boulder (2).
Camera activity around Boulder, last 30 days
13 newly reported, 12 removed in our hourly change log for Boulder. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Boulder
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 Boulder — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Boulder (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Boulder
- 12 license plate readers reported removed near Boulder, CO
- 12 new license plate readers reported around Boulder, CO
- Colorado Man's Lawsuit Against Boulder Police Claims Flock Cameras Are Being Used For Illegal Mass Surveillance
- 2 Boulder residents sue over city’s use of Flock cameras, citing widespread privacy violations
What you can do in Boulder
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 Boulder
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).