Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fords Prairie, Washington
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Fords Prairie — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Fords Prairie, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Fords Prairie itself.
The rest sit in Centralia (5).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Centralia Police Department (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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No new reports near Fords Prairie in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:02 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Fords Prairie
The readers mapped around Fords Prairie break down as 5 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Centralia Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Jan 2026.
- Harrison Avenue — 4 readers
- Belmont Avenue — 1 reader
Fords Prairie in the Lewis County picture
Lewis County has 40 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #573 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 83,925 residents and 4,860 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 48.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic. Operators named on the record: Centralia Police Department (3).
What’s watching Fords Prairie
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 Fords Prairie — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fords Prairie (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Fords Prairie
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 Fords Prairie
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).