Flock & ALPR Cameras in Newcastle, Washington
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Newcastle — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Newcastle, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Newcastle itself.
The rest sit in Renton (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Newcastle in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Newcastle
The readers mapped around Newcastle break down as 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Newcastle Way — 2 readers
- Coal Creek Parkway Southeast — 2 readers
- Newcastle Commons Drive — 2 readers
- Lake Boren Esplanade — 1 reader
- Northeast Sunset Boulevard — 1 reader
- Lake Washington Boulevard Southeast — 1 reader
- Southeast 79th Drive — 1 reader
Newcastle WA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Newcastle WA PD has logged 66 plate-database searches. Its network connects to 87 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Aberdeen WA PD, Adams County WA SO, Airway Heights WA PD, Arlington WA PD, Auburn WA PD, Benton County WA SO, Brewster WA PD, Chehalis WA PD.
Newcastle in the King County picture
King County has 462 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,363 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 2,262,713 residents and 10,773 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
What’s watching Newcastle
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 Newcastle — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Newcastle (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Newcastle
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 Newcastle
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).