Flock & ALPR Cameras in Dakota Ridge, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Dakota Ridge — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Dakota Ridge, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Dakota Ridge itself.
The rest sit in Lakewood (2).
1 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
9 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Dakota Ridge in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Dakota Ridge
The readers mapped around Dakota Ridge break down as 11 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Bowles Avenue — 3 readers
- Jefferson County — 2 readers
- South Oak Way — 2 readers
- West Belleview Avenue — 1 reader
- West Quincy Avenue — 1 reader
- South Kipling Parkway — 1 reader
- Kipling Trail — 1 reader
Dakota Ridge 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 9 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Dakota Ridge, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Dakota Ridge. Latest change logged Aug 21, 2026.
What’s watching Dakota Ridge
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 Dakota Ridge — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Dakota Ridge (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Dakota Ridge
What you can do in Dakota Ridge
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 Dakota Ridge
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).