Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fife Heights, Washington
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Fife Heights — 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 Fife Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Fife Heights itself.
The rest sit in Federal Way (7), Tacoma (2).
6 of them name an operator in the record: Federal Way Police (6). 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 Fife Heights 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 Fife Heights
The readers mapped around Fife Heights break down as 6 Avigilon, 3 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Federal Way Police. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- 21st Avenue Southwest — 3 readers
- Southwest 356th Street — 3 readers
- Marine View Drive — 2 readers
- Southwest 342nd Place — 1 reader
Fife Heights in the Pierce County picture
Pierce County has 175 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,426 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 924,106 residents and 5,077 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 18.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic. Operators named on the record: Federal Way Police (6).
What’s watching Fife Heights
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 Fife Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fife Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Fife Heights
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 Fife Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).