Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lacey, Washington
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Lacey — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lacey, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Lacey itself.
The rest sit in Olympia (7).
13 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (9), Kroger (3), The Home Depot (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 Lacey in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lacey
The readers mapped around Lacey break down as 13 Flock Safety, 3 LiveView Technologies. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's, Kroger, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Kasey Keller drive NE — 3 readers
- Corporate Center Loop Southeast — 2 readers
- Avery Lane Southeast — 2 readers
- Martin Way East — 2 readers
- College Street Southeast — 2 readers
- Fones Road Southeast — 1 reader
- 7th Avenue Southeast — 1 reader
- Kasey Keller Drive Northeast — 1 reader
- Yelm Highway Southeast — 1 reader
- Lilly Road Southeast — 1 reader
Lacey in the Thurston County picture
Thurston County has 59 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,384 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 296,640 residents and 2,651 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 27% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 13 traffic, 3 parking. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (9), Kroger (3), The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Lacey, last 30 days
3 newly reported, 7 removed in our hourly change log for Lacey. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Lacey
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 Lacey — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lacey (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lacey
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Lacey, WA
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Lacey, WA
- 5 license plate readers reported removed near Lacey, WA
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Lacey, WA
What you can do in Lacey
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 Lacey
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).