Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fort Collins, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 35 automated license plate readers in and around Fort Collins — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Fort Collins is on the record here. Fort Collins canceled its Flock Safety camera contract.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 35 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Fort Collins, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 26 of them sit inside Fort Collins itself.
The rest sit in Timnath (1).
12 of them name an operator in the record: Larimer County Sheriff's Office (5), Lowe's (4), Colorado State University (2), The Home Depot (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
8 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 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 Fort Collins
The readers mapped around Fort Collins break down as 33 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's, Colorado State University, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Fort Collins — 4 readers
- Corbett Drive — 3 readers
- East Drake Road — 2 readers
- Terry Lake Road — 2 readers
- East Lincoln Avenue — 2 readers
- South Lemay Avenue — 2 readers
- John F Kennedy Parkway — 2 readers
- East Prospect Road — 2 readers
- East Magnolia Street — 2 readers
- East Mulberry Street — 2 readers
- Cottonwood Point Drive — 2 readers
- Hughes Way — 2 readers
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Fort Collins — all on the live map above.
Fort Collins CO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Fort Collins CO PD has logged 675 plate-database searches, has captured 499,323 vehicle records. Its network connects to 67 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Arapahoe County CO SO, Arvada CO PD, Aurora CO PD, Avon CO PD, Boulder CO PD, Boulder County CO SO, Breckenridge CO PD, Brighton CO PD.
Fort Collins in the Larimer County picture
Larimer County has 158 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #649 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 363,561 residents and 5,166 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 24 traffic, 2 street, 1 public. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (4), Colorado State University (2), The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Fort Collins, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 9 removed in our hourly change log for Fort Collins. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching Fort Collins
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 Fort Collins — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fort Collins (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Fort Collins
- Eric Mulder: Fort Collins rightly abandoned Flock; the rest of Colorado should do the same (guest opinion)
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Fort Collins, CO
- 6 license plate readers reported removed near Fort Collins, CO
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Fort Collins, CO
What you can do in Fort Collins
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 Fort Collins
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).