Flock & ALPR Cameras in Kent, Washington
Volunteers have reported 26 automated license plate readers in and around Kent — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 26 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Kent, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 24 of them sit inside Kent itself.
The rest sit in Auburn (2).
21 of them name an operator in the record: Kent Police (6), The Home Depot (6), Auburn Police (4), Washington State Department of Transportation (4), King County Housing Authority (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 Kent in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:11 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Kent
The readers mapped around Kent break down as 22 Flock Safety, 4 Kapsch. Named operators in the reports: Kent Police, The Home Depot, Auburn Police, Washington State Department of Transportation, King County Housing Authority. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Valley Freeway — 4 readers
- South 277th Street — 3 readers
- Southeast 260th Street — 3 readers
- East Valley Highway — 2 readers
- West Willis Street — 2 readers
- Central Avenue North — 2 readers
- Southeast 262nd Place — 2 readers
- 104th Avenue Southeast — 2 readers
- Auburn Way North — 1 reader
- South 259th Street — 1 reader
- East Titus Street — 1 reader
- East Willis Street — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Kent — all on the live map above.
Kent WA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Kent WA PD runs 20 cameras of its own, has logged 182 plate-database searches, has captured 540,456 vehicle records. Its network connects to 20 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Kent 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 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: Kent Police (6), The Home Depot (6), Auburn Police (4).
What’s watching Kent
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 Kent — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Kent (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Kent
- Kent, WA child rape suspect caught by license plate camera
- Automated license plate reader catches ‘elusive’ child rape suspect in Kent, WA
- Kent PD: License plate reader leads police to suspect wanted for child rape in multiple counties
- Kent Police nabbed child rape suspect with tool Washington Democrats are trying to ban
What you can do in Kent
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 Kent
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).