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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Coal Creek, Colorado

Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Coal Creek — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Coal Creek, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Coal Creek itself.

The rest sit in Arvada (3).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#126
of 161 Colorado cities tracked
0.1%
of Colorado’s reported cameras
Live camera map 3 reported cameras around Coal Creek, Colorado
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Coal Creek

No new reports near Coal Creek in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:50 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Coal Creek

The readers mapped around Coal Creek break down as 3 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jul 2026.

  • Canyon Pines Drive — 2 readers
  • North Ridgeway Road — 1 reader

Coal Creek 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 3 traffic.

What’s watching Coal Creek

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 Coal Creek — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Coal Creek (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Coal Creek

What you can do in Coal Creek

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.

Cameras near Coal Creek

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).