Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mountlake Terrace, Washington
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Mountlake Terrace — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Mountlake Terrace is on the record here. The Mountlake Terrace City Council voted unanimously to cancel their contract with Flock Safety following concerns of data access and public records implications.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mountlake Terrace, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Mountlake Terrace itself.
The rest sit in Edmonds (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 23, 2025 On the agenda: Mountlake Terrace City Council Meeting — Flock Safety (Oct 23)
- Oct 16, 2025 On the agenda: Mountlake Terrace City Council Meeting — Flock Safety (Oct 16)
- Oct 2, 2025 In the minutes: Mountlake Terrace City Council Meeting, Flock Safety (Oct 2)
- Sep 25, 2025 On the agenda: Mountlake Terrace City Council Meeting — Flock Safety (Sep 25)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Mountlake Terrace in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:03 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Mountlake Terrace
The readers mapped around Mountlake Terrace break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Pacific Highway — 1 reader
- Northeast 205th Street - Lake Ballinger Way — 1 reader
Mountlake Terrace WA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mountlake Terrace WA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 20 other agencies.
Mountlake Terrace 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 2 traffic.
What’s watching Mountlake Terrace
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 Mountlake Terrace — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mountlake Terrace (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mountlake Terrace
- Mountlake Terrace cancels Flock Safety contract
- Mountlake Terrace, WA: Contract Canceled
- On the agenda: Mountlake Terrace City Council Meeting — Flock Safety (Oct 23)
- On the agenda: Mountlake Terrace City Council Meeting — Flock Safety (Oct 16)
What you can do in Mountlake Terrace
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 Mountlake Terrace
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).