Flock & ALPR Cameras in Shaw Heights, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Shaw Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Shaw Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Shaw Heights itself.
The rest sit in Westminster (17), Arvada (5).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Arvada Police Department (1), City of Westminster (1). 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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No new reports near Shaw Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Shaw Heights
The readers mapped around Shaw Heights break down as 16 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make, 1 Q108485435. Named operators in the reports: City of Westminster, Arvada Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West 88th Avenue — 5 readers
- West 92nd Avenue — 3 readers
- West 84th Way — 3 readers
- US 36 EXPR — 3 readers
- Sheridan Boulevard — 2 readers
- West 90th Avenue — 2 readers
- 91st Avenue — 1 reader
- Wadsworth Boulevard — 1 reader
- Denver–Boulder Turnpike — 1 reader
- West 80th Avenue — 1 reader
Shaw 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 15 traffic, 1 home_depot_traffic, 1 area. Operators named on the record: City of Westminster (1), Arvada Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Shaw Heights, last 30 days
5 newly reported in our hourly change log for Shaw Heights. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Shaw 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 Shaw Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Shaw Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Shaw Heights
What you can do in Shaw 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 Shaw Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).