Flock & ALPR Cameras in Federal Way, Washington
Volunteers have reported 37 automated license plate readers in and around Federal Way — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 37 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Federal Way, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 32 of them sit inside Federal Way itself.
The rest sit in Des Moines (5).
31 of them name an operator in the record: Federal Way Police (22), Des Moines Police (5), Safeway (3), Northlake Ridge HOA (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 Federal Way in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:31 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Federal Way
The readers mapped around Federal Way break down as 11 Flock Safety, 10 Other w/ Rekor Scout, 7 Avigilon. Named operators in the reports: Federal Way Police, Des Moines Police, Safeway, Northlake Ridge HOA. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Pacific Highway South — 8 readers
- South 320th Street — 5 readers
- 21st Avenue Southwest — 5 readers
- Redondo Beach Drive South — 3 readers
- Southwest 320th Street — 2 readers
- Redondo Way South — 2 readers
- Southwest 334th Street — 2 readers
- Southwest 325th Place — 2 readers
- 11th Avenue Southwest — 2 readers
- 11th Place South — 2 readers
- South 312th Street — 1 reader
- Southwest 336th Street — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Federal Way — all on the live map above.
Federal Way WA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Federal Way WA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 17 other agencies.
Federal Way 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 17 traffic, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: Federal Way Police (22), Des Moines Police (5), Safeway (3).
Camera activity around Federal Way, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Federal Way. Latest change logged Aug 16, 2026.
What’s watching Federal Way
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 Federal Way — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Federal Way (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Federal Way
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Federal Way, WA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Federal Way, WA
- 15 license plate readers reported removed near Federal Way, WA
- Federal Way approves expansion of Flock Safety cameras
What you can do in Federal Way
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 Federal Way
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).