Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wheat Ridge, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Wheat Ridge — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wheat Ridge, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Wheat Ridge itself.
The rest sit in Lakewood (3).
1 of them name an operator in the record: LiveView Technologies (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 18 Altumint camera newly reported
- Sep 18 Altumint camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Wheat Ridge
The readers mapped around Wheat Ridge break down as 2 of unrecorded make, 1 Flock Safety, 1 Neology, Inc.. Named operators in the reports: LiveView Technologies. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West 15th Place — 2 readers
- Kipling Street — 1 reader
- West 44th Avenue — 1 reader
Wheat Ridge in the Jefferson County picture
Jefferson County has 209 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #853 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 579,715 residents and 2,982 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: LiveView Technologies (1).
What’s watching Wheat Ridge
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 Wheat Ridge — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wheat Ridge (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wheat Ridge
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Wheat Ridge, CO
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Wheat Ridge, CO
What you can do in Wheat Ridge
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 Wheat Ridge
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).