Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mount Vernon, Washington
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Mount Vernon — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mount Vernon, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Mount Vernon itself.
The rest sit in Burlington (5).
4 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (3), Lowe's (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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- Jul 22, 2026 On the agenda: Mount Vernon meeting — ALPR (Jul 22)
- Jul 22, 2026 Mount Vernon — meeting Jul 22, 2026
- Jul 8, 2026 On the agenda: Mount Vernon meeting — ALPR (Jul 8)
- Apr 22, 2026 On the agenda: Mount Vernon meeting — Flock camera (Apr 22)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Mount Vernon in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Mount Vernon
The readers mapped around Mount Vernon break down as 14 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Dec 2025.
- Marketplace Drive — 3 readers
- East College Way — 2 readers
- Anderson Road — 2 readers
- Riverside Drive — 2 readers
- Freeway Drive — 2 readers
- East Marketplace Drive — 1 reader
- Burlington — 1 reader
- WestCollege Way — 1 reader
Mount Vernon WA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mount Vernon WA PD runs 6 cameras of its own, has logged 71 plate-database searches, has captured 173,411 vehicle records. Its network connects to 55 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Arlington WA PD, Auburn WA PD, Benton County WA SO, Brewster WA PD, Clyde Hill WA PD, College Place WA PD, Columbia River Drug Task Force WA, Covington WA PD.
Mount Vernon in the Skagit County picture
Skagit County has 23 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,468 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 130,407 residents and 2,150 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 41.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (3), Lowe's (1).
What’s watching Mount Vernon
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 Mount Vernon — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mount Vernon (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mount Vernon
- On the agenda: Mount Vernon meeting — ALPR (Jul 22)
- On the agenda: Mount Vernon meeting — ALPR (Jul 8)
- On the agenda: Mount Vernon meeting — Flock camera (Apr 22)
- On the agenda: Mount Vernon meeting — Flock camera (Mar 25)
What you can do in Mount Vernon
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 Mount Vernon
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).