Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fircrest, Washington
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Fircrest — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Fircrest, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Fircrest itself.
The rest sit in Tacoma (11).
8 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (5), Lowe's (3). 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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- Sep 22 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Fircrest
The readers mapped around Fircrest break down as 10 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- South Gove Street — 4 readers
- South Orchard Street — 2 readers
- 6th Avenue — 2 readers
- South 25th Street — 1 reader
- Center Street — 1 reader
Fircrest 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 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (5), Lowe's (3).
Camera activity around Fircrest, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Fircrest. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Fircrest
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 Fircrest — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fircrest (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Fircrest
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 Fircrest
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).