Flock & ALPR Cameras in Columbia City, Washington
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Columbia City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Columbia City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Columbia City itself.
The rest sit in Seattle (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Columbia City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:00 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Columbia City
The readers mapped around Columbia City break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in May 2026.
- Rainier Avenue South — 1 reader
- South Bayview Street — 1 reader
- Martin Luther King Junior Way South — 1 reader
- Mount Baker Drive South — 1 reader
Columbia City 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 4 traffic.
Camera activity around Columbia City, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Columbia City. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching Columbia City
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 Columbia City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Columbia City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Columbia City
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Columbia City, WA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Columbia City, WA
What you can do in Columbia City
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.
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Cameras near Columbia City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).