Flock & ALPR Cameras in Palmer Lake, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Palmer Lake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Palmer Lake in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 08:56 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Palmer Lake
The readers mapped around Palmer Lake break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Feb 2026.
- Spruce Mountain Road — 1 reader
- Douglas County — 1 reader
- East Noe Road — 1 reader
Palmer Lake in the El Paso County picture
El Paso County has 193 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,135 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 736,008 residents and 5,587 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 18.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
What’s watching Palmer Lake
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 Palmer Lake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Palmer Lake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Palmer Lake
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 Palmer Lake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).