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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lakewood, Washington

Volunteers have reported 44 automated license plate readers in and around Lakewood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 44 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lakewood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 42 of them sit inside Lakewood itself.

The rest sit in Tacoma (2).

37 of them name an operator in the record: Lakewood Police Department (34), Flock Safety (2), City of Lakewood (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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Reported cameras nearby
#5
of 236 Washington cities tracked
1.9%
of Washington’s reported cameras
Live camera map 44 reported cameras around Lakewood, Washington
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Lakewood

No new reports near Lakewood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Lakewood

The readers mapped around Lakewood break down as 42 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Lakewood Police Department, Flock Safety, City of Lakewood. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.

  • 100th Street Southwest — 8 readers
  • Steilacoom Boulevard Southwest — 5 readers
  • 96th Street Southwest — 3 readers
  • Gravelly Lake Drive Southwest — 3 readers
  • Main Street Southwest — 3 readers
  • 74th Street West — 3 readers
  • South 84th Street — 2 readers
  • 59th Avenue Southwest — 2 readers
  • Lakeview Avenue Southwest — 1 reader
  • 96th Street South — 1 reader
  • 92nd Street South — 1 reader
  • Lakewood Mall Boulevard Southwest — 1 reader

+ 11 more streets and roads mapped around Lakewood — all on the live map above.

Lakewood WA PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lakewood WA PD runs 58 cameras of its own, has logged 131 plate-database searches. Its network connects to 196 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.

Connected agencies include: Adams County WA SO, Airway Heights WA PD, Arlington WA PD, Auburn WA PD, Benton County WA SO, Brewster WA PD, Centralia WA PD, Chehalis Tribe Law Enforcement WA.

Lakewood 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 42 traffic, 1 parking_entrance. Operators named on the record: Lakewood Police Department (34), Flock Safety (2), City of Lakewood (1).

What’s watching Lakewood

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 Lakewood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lakewood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Lakewood

What you can do in Lakewood

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 Lakewood

McChord Air Force Base (8) Parkland (6) Fircrest (11) North Fort Lewis (1)

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).