Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cle Elum, Washington
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Cle Elum — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Cle Elum is on the record here. Cle Elum ended its Flock ALPR camera contract while neighboring Ellensburg kept its program.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cle Elum, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Cle Elum itself.
The rest sit in Roslyn (1), South Cle Elum (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Cle Elum in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Cle Elum
The readers mapped around Cle Elum break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Oaks Avenue — 2 readers
- WA 903 — 1 reader
- Bullfrog Road — 1 reader
- Golf Course Road — 1 reader
- West 1st Street — 1 reader
- South 1st Street — 1 reader
- South Cle Elum Way — 1 reader
Cle Elum WA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cle Elum WA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 14 other agencies.
Cle Elum in the Kittitas County picture
Kittitas County has 29 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #323 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 15.1% nationally. That’s across 44,736 residents and 4,166 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 52.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
Camera activity around Cle Elum, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Cle Elum. Latest change logged Aug 26, 2026.
What’s watching Cle Elum
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 Cle Elum — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cle Elum (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cle Elum
- Cle Elum covers city Flock cameras after council vote
- Cle Elum, WA: Contract Canceled
- Cle Elum ends Flock camera contract after council vote
- Cle Elum Flock cameras
What you can do in Cle Elum
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 Cle Elum
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).