Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mead, Washington
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Mead — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mead, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Mead itself.
The rest sit in Fairwood (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Spokane County Sheriff's Office (4). 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 Mead in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:00 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Mead
The readers mapped around Mead break down as 5 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Spokane County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- East Farwell Road — 2 readers
- North Parksmith Drive — 1 reader
- East 1st Street — 1 reader
- North Market Street — 1 reader
Mead in the Spokane County picture
Spokane County has 138 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,167 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 544,323 residents and 4,517 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic. Operators named on the record: Spokane County Sheriff's Office (4).
What’s watching Mead
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 Mead — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mead (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Mead
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 Mead
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).