Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lakeland North, Washington
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Lakeland North — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lakeland North, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Lakeland North itself.
The rest sit in Federal Way (6), Kent (5), Auburn (3), Des Moines (3).
12 of them name an operator in the record: Federal Way Police (4), Washington State Department of Transportation (4), Safeway (2), Des Moines Police (1), Kent Police (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 Lakeland North in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lakeland North
The readers mapped around Lakeland North break down as 7 Flock Safety, 4 Avigilon, 4 Kapsch. Named operators in the reports: Federal Way Police, Washington State Department of Transportation, Safeway, Des Moines Police, Kent Police. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Military Road South — 4 readers
- Valley Freeway — 4 readers
- South 288th Street — 2 readers
- Pacific Highway South — 2 readers
- B Street Northwest — 2 readers
- 16th Avenue South — 1 reader
- South 272nd Street — 1 reader
- West Valley Highway South — 1 reader
Lakeland North 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 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: Federal Way Police (4), Washington State Department of Transportation (4), Safeway (2).
What’s watching Lakeland North
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 Lakeland North — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lakeland North (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lakeland North
What you can do in Lakeland North
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 Lakeland North
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).