Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lynnwood, Washington
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Lynnwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Cameras Deactivated
Lynnwood is on the record here. The Lynnwood Police Department paused the used of their Flock system following concerns raised by residents.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lynnwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Lynnwood itself.
The rest sit in Edmonds (1).
8 of them name an operator in the record: Lynnwood Police (8). 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 Lynnwood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:30 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lynnwood
The readers mapped around Lynnwood break down as 9 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lynnwood Police. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Dec 2025.
- Pacific Highway — 4 readers
- 212th Street Southwest — 1 reader
- 196th Street Southwest — 1 reader
- 36th Avenue West — 1 reader
- 44th Avenue West — 1 reader
- 46th Avenue West — 1 reader
Lynnwood WA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lynnwood WA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 12 other agencies.
Lynnwood in the Snohomish County picture
Snohomish County has 294 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #879 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 834,648 residents and 4,750 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lynnwood Police (8).
Camera activity around Lynnwood, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for Lynnwood. Latest change logged Aug 21, 2026.
What’s watching Lynnwood
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 Lynnwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lynnwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lynnwood
- Lynnwood City Council Could Vote To End Flock Safety License Plate Reader Deal Geha Field At Arrowhead Stadium (EicskV2cmI)
- Lynnwood dumps flock safety cameras
- Ursula believes Lynnwood could have kept Flock cameras with safeguards
- Lynnwood City Council votes to end Flock Safety camera contract
What you can do in Lynnwood
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 Lynnwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).