Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sheridan, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Sheridan — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sheridan, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Sheridan itself.
The rest sit in Denver (10), Bow Mar (4), Lakewood (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Denver Police Department (3), The Home Depot (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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- 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 Sheridan
The readers mapped around Sheridan break down as 13 Flock Safety, 3 Axon Enterprise, 1 LiveView Technologies. Named operators in the reports: Denver Police Department, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- South Federal Boulevard — 4 readers
- West Dartmouth Avenue — 3 readers
- West Mansfield Avenue — 2 readers
- South Sheridan Boulevard — 2 readers
- West Evans Avenue — 2 readers
- Bow Mar — 1 reader
- West Prospect Street — 1 reader
- West Jefferson Avenue — 1 reader
- Bear Creek Trail — 1 reader
Sheridan in the Denver County picture
Denver County has 212 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,026 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 713,734 residents and 1,161 road miles. By road density that is 0.18 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic, 1 residential. Operators named on the record: Denver Police Department (3), The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Sheridan, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Sheridan. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching Sheridan
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 Sheridan — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sheridan (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Sheridan
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 Sheridan
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).