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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Moses Lake, Washington

Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around Moses Lake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

On the record · Cameras Removed

Moses Lake is on the record here. New state privacy law forced Moses Lake to shut down numerous Flock cameras.

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25
Reported cameras nearby
#23
of 236 Washington cities tracked
1.1%
of Washington’s reported cameras
Live camera map 25 reported cameras around Moses Lake, 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 Moses Lake

No new reports near Moses Lake in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:23 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Moses Lake

The readers mapped around Moses Lake break down as 25 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • Yonezawa Boulevard — 5 readers
  • Sharon Avenue East — 3 readers
  • North Stratford Road — 2 readers
  • South Pioneer Way — 2 readers
  • Potato Hill Road Southeast — 2 readers
  • East Broadway Avenue — 1 reader
  • South Division Street — 1 reader
  • West Broadway Avenue — 1 reader
  • West Valley Road — 1 reader
  • Beacon Road Northeast — 1 reader
  • Stratford Road Northeast — 1 reader
  • State Route 17 — 1 reader

+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Moses Lake — all on the live map above.

Moses Lake WA PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Moses Lake WA PD runs 14 cameras of its own, has logged 77 plate-database searches, has captured 104,496 vehicle records. Its network connects to 83 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 WA PD.

Moses Lake in the Grant County picture

Grant County has 19 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,428 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 100,428 residents and 3,729 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 59.9% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 25 traffic.

Camera activity around Moses Lake, last 30 days

7 newly reported in our hourly change log for Moses Lake. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.

What’s watching Moses Lake

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

The latest around Moses Lake

What you can do in Moses Lake

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.

Cameras near Moses Lake

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