Flock & ALPR Cameras in Burien, Washington
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Burien — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Burien, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Burien itself.
The rest sit in Normandy Park (1), SeaTac (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (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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No new reports near Burien in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:09 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Burien
The readers mapped around Burien break down as 1 of unrecorded make, 1 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Jun 2025.
- South 156th Way — 1 reader
- 1st Avenue South — 1 reader
Burien 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 1 street. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
What’s watching Burien
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 Burien — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Burien (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Burien
What you can do in Burien
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 Burien
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).