Flock & ALPR Cameras in Federal Heights, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Federal Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Federal Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Federal Heights itself.
The rest sit in Thornton (6), Sherrelwood, Colorado (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: City of Thornton (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 2 Leonardo camera newly reported
- Sep 21 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Federal Heights
The readers mapped around Federal Heights break down as 5 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: City of Thornton. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- East 84th Avenue — 2 readers
- Thornton Parkway — 1 reader
- West 88th Avenue — 1 reader
- Huron Street — 1 reader
Federal Heights CO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Federal Heights CO PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 1 other agencies.
Federal Heights in the Adams County picture
Adams County has 153 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,043 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 524,408 residents and 3,103 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic. Operators named on the record: City of Thornton (2).
What’s watching Federal Heights
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 Federal Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Federal Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Federal Heights
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 Federal Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).