Flock & ALPR Cameras in McChord Air Force Base, Washington
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around McChord Air Force Base — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of McChord Air Force Base, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside McChord Air Force Base itself.
The rest sit in Lakewood (8).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Lakewood Police Department (5). 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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- Sep 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in McChord Air Force Base
The readers mapped around McChord Air Force Base break down as 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lakewood Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Bridgeport Way Southwest — 3 readers
- 112th Street South — 2 readers
- 47th Avenue Southwest — 1 reader
- 150th Street Southwest — 1 reader
- McChord Drive Southwest — 1 reader
McChord Air Force Base 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 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lakewood Police Department (5).
Camera activity around McChord Air Force Base, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for McChord Air Force Base. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching McChord Air Force Base
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 McChord Air Force Base — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to McChord Air Force Base (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
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What you can do in McChord Air Force Base
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.
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Cameras near McChord Air Force Base
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).