Flock & ALPR Cameras in North Portland, Oregon
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around North Portland — 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 North Portland, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside North Portland itself.
The rest sit in Portland (6).
4 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (4). 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 North Portland in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in North Portland
The readers mapped around North Portland break down as 5 Flock Safety, 2 I, 1 LiveView Technologies. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- North Starlight Avenue — 3 readers
- North Pavilion Avenue — 2 readers
- North Pier Park Loop — 1 reader
- Cathedral Park Trail — 1 reader
- North Lombard Street — 1 reader
North Portland in the Multnomah County picture
Multnomah County has 70 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,823 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 803,863 residents and 2,218 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 20.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (4).
What’s watching North Portland
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 North Portland — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to North Portland (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around North Portland
What you can do in North Portland
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 North Portland
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).