Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fairwood, Washington
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Fairwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Fairwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Fairwood itself.
The rest sit in Renton (9).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Valley Medical Center (4). 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 Fairwood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Fairwood
The readers mapped around Fairwood break down as 9 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Valley Medical Center. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Talbot Road South — 3 readers
- Southeast Carr Road — 2 readers
- Southeast 180th Street — 1 reader
- Roodman Drive — 1 reader
- 108th Avenue Southeast — 1 reader
- South 43rd Street — 1 reader
Fairwood 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: Valley Medical Center (4).
What’s watching Fairwood
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 Fairwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fairwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Fairwood
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 Fairwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).