Flock & ALPR Cameras in Auburn, Washington
Volunteers have reported 38 automated license plate readers in and around Auburn — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 1 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Auburn
The readers mapped around Auburn break down as 29 Flock Safety, 4 Kapsch, 3 Rekor Systems. Named operators in the reports: Auburn Police, Lowe's, King County Housing Authority, Fred Meyer, WSDOT. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Auburn Way South — 7 readers
- Valley Freeway — 4 readers
- 14th Street Northwest — 3 readers
- 15th Street Northeast — 2 readers
- 15th Street Northwest — 2 readers
- Cross Street Southeast — 2 readers
- 10th Street Northeast — 2 readers
- Auburn Way North — 1 reader
- 6th Street Southeast — 1 reader
- Auburn — 1 reader
- K Street Northeast — 1 reader
- J Street Northeast — 1 reader
+ 9 more streets and roads mapped around Auburn — all on the live map above.
Auburn WA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Auburn WA PD runs 37 cameras of its own, has logged 442 plate-database searches, has captured 497,430 vehicle records. Its network connects to 206 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Aberdeen WA PD, Adams County WA SO, Airway Heights WA PD, Arlington WA PD, Benton County WA SO, Black Diamond WA PD, Brewster WA PD, Centralia WA PD.
Auburn in the King County picture
King County has 462 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,363 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 2,262,713 residents and 10,773 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic. Operators named on the record: Auburn Police (8), Lowe's (5), King County Housing Authority (3).
Camera activity around Auburn, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Auburn. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Auburn
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 Auburn — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Auburn (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Auburn
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Auburn, WA
- License plate readers installed to tackle crime in Auburn
- City of Auburn implements license plate readers to fight crime
- City of Auburn condemns U . S . Border Patrol unauthorized use of Flock camera system – KIRO 7 News Seattle
What you can do in Auburn
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 Auburn
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).