Flock & ALPR Cameras in Covington, Washington
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Covington — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Covington, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Covington itself.
The rest sit in Kent (5).
10 of them name an operator in the record: Covington Police (4), Safeway (2), The Home Depot (2), Auburn Police (1), King County Housing Authority (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 Covington in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:24 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Covington
The readers mapped around Covington break down as 13 Flock Safety, 2 Rekor Systems. Named operators in the reports: Covington Police, The Home Depot, Safeway, Auburn Police, King County Housing Authority. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Southeast Wax Road — 3 readers
- Southeast 272nd Street — 3 readers
- 185th Avenue Southeast — 2 readers
- 168th Place Southeast — 1 reader
- Covington Way Southeast — 1 reader
- 162nd Avenue Southeast — 1 reader
- Southeast Kent-Kangley Road — 1 reader
- Southeast 258th Street — 1 reader
- 132nd Avenue Southeast — 1 reader
- Southeast 274th Street — 1 reader
Covington WA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Covington WA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 19 other agencies.
Covington 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 5 traffic. Operators named on the record: Covington Police (4), The Home Depot (2), Safeway (2).
Camera activity around Covington, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Covington. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.
What’s watching Covington
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 Covington — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Covington (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Covington
What you can do in Covington
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 Covington
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).