Flock & ALPR Cameras in Durango, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around Durango — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Durango
The readers mapped around Durango break down as 20 Flock Safety, 4 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Main Avenue — 4 readers
- East 32nd Street — 3 readers
- West U.S. Highway 160 — 2 readers
- Three Springs Boulevard — 2 readers
- Wilson Gulch Drive — 2 readers
- East 8th Avenue — 1 reader
- Florida Road Trail — 1 reader
- West College Drive — 1 reader
- Durango — 1 reader
- East U.S. Highway 160 — 1 reader
- La Posta Road — 1 reader
- Rim Drive — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Durango — all on the live map above.
Durango CO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Durango CO PD has logged 237 plate-database searches, has captured 141,786 vehicle records. Its network connects to 139 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Durango in the La Plata County picture
La Plata County has 23 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #708 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 56,088 residents and 2,847 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 49.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic, 2 street, 1 public.
Camera activity around Durango, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Durango. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Durango
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 Durango — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Durango (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Durango
- A Flock Camera Helped Put Her in Jail for 13 Days. Photos of Her Undamaged Durango Got Her Out.
- Durango residents protest Flock ALPRs and Axon pivot
- Public lands, wildlife management debated by Reiss, Stewart in Durango
- Work group to reexamine warrant exception in proposed Durango privacy ordinance
What you can do in Durango
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 Durango
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).