Flock & ALPR Cameras in Black Diamond, Washington
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Black Diamond — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Black Diamond
The readers mapped around Black Diamond break down as 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, Black Diamond Police. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Enumclaw-Black Diamond Road — 1 reader
- Lawson Street — 1 reader
- Maple Valley Black Diamond Road Southeast — 1 reader
- Southeast Auburn Black Diamond Road — 1 reader
Black Diamond WA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Black Diamond WA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 3 other agencies.
Black Diamond 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 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1), Black Diamond Police (1).
What’s watching Black Diamond
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 Black Diamond — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Black Diamond (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Black Diamond
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 Black Diamond
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).