Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lafayette, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 73 automated license plate readers in and around Lafayette — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 73 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lafayette, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 36 of them sit inside Lafayette itself.
The rest sit in Broomfield (27), Erie (8).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Broomfield Police Department (1), [Lafayette Police Department] (1). 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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- Sep 23 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Lafayette
The readers mapped around Lafayette break down as 69 Flock Safety, 2 Flock, 2 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Broomfield Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Exempla Circle — 11 readers
- Northwest Parkway — 5 readers
- North 111th Street — 4 readers
- South Public Road — 4 readers
- Eagle River Loop — 4 readers
- West South Boulder Road — 3 readers
- US 287;CO 7 — 3 readers
- Arapahoe Road — 2 readers
- Private Driveway - 2910 — 2 readers
- Crimson Star Drive — 2 readers
- Spruce Meadows Drive — 2 readers
- West Dillon Road — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Lafayette — all on the live map above.
Lafayette CO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lafayette CO PD runs 30 cameras of its own, has logged 189 plate-database searches, has captured 371,673 vehicle records. Its network connects to 92 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Arapahoe County CO SO, Archuleta County CO SO, Arvada CO PD, Aurora CO PD, Avon CO PD, Basalt CO PD, Boulder CO PD, Boulder County CO SO.
Lafayette in the Boulder County picture
Boulder County has 153 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #597 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 328,317 residents and 1,821 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 51 traffic. Operators named on the record: Broomfield Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Lafayette, last 30 days
6 newly reported, 4 removed in our hourly change log for Lafayette. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Lafayette
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 Lafayette — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lafayette (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Lafayette
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 Lafayette
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).