Flock & ALPR Cameras in Longmont, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 30 automated license plate readers in and around Longmont — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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Longmont is on the record here. Longmont halted Flock license plate reader data sharing while weighing whether to end its contract.
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- Sep 10 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Longmont
The readers mapped around Longmont break down as 27 Flock Safety, 2 Genetec, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- South Hover Street — 4 readers
- East Ken Pratt Boulevard — 3 readers
- Ken Pratt Boulevard — 3 readers
- South Main Street — 2 readers
- Main Street — 2 readers
- Lykins Gulch Road — 2 readers
- South Emery Street — 2 readers
- Ken Pratt Sidepath — 2 readers
- East 3rd Avenue — 1 reader
- Coffman Street — 1 reader
- South Kimbark Street — 1 reader
- Mountain Brook Drive — 1 reader
+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Longmont — all on the live map above.
Longmont CO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Longmont CO PD runs 14 cameras of its own, has logged 346 plate-database searches, has captured 425,082 vehicle records. Its network connects to 9 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Longmont 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 21 traffic, 1 parking.
Camera activity around Longmont, last 30 days
7 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for Longmont. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Longmont
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 Longmont — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Longmont (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Longmont
- Longmont legislative dinner to focus on state mandates, taxes and technology
- Longmont Community Update on Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) Technology
- Longmont delays plan to replace Flock cameras with other license plate readers – FOX31 Denver
- Longmont delays deployment of replacement license plate readers
What you can do in Longmont
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 Longmont
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).