Flock & ALPR Cameras in Columbine, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Columbine — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Columbine, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Columbine itself.
The rest sit in Lakewood (6), Denver (5), Highlands Ranch (1).
5 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (3), Lowe's (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Columbine
The readers mapped around Columbine break down as 13 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Feb 2026.
- West Crestline Avenue — 4 readers
- Wadsworth Blvd Sidepath — 2 readers
- Grant Ranch Boulevard — 2 readers
- West Town Center Drive — 1 reader
- South Pierce Street — 1 reader
- Bowles Ave Sidepath — 1 reader
- Grant Ranch Multi-Use Path — 1 reader
- West Grant Ranch Boulevard — 1 reader
Columbine 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 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (3), Lowe's (2).
What’s watching Columbine
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 Columbine — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Columbine (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Columbine
- On the agenda: Columbine Valley 09-15-26 Board of Trustees Packet — Flock safety (Sep 15)
- On the agenda: Columbine Valley 08-18-26 Board of Trustees Packet — Flock safety (Aug 18)
- On the agenda: Columbine Valley 07-21-26 Board of Trustees Packet — Flock safety (Jul 21)
What you can do in Columbine
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 Columbine
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).