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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Oak Harbor, Washington

Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Oak Harbor — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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Live camera map 5 reported cameras around Oak Harbor, 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 Oak Harbor

No new reports near Oak Harbor in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:20 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Oak Harbor

The readers mapped around Oak Harbor break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.

State Route 20 — 4 readers
Southeast 8th Avenue — 1 reader

Oak Harbor in the Island County picture

Island County has 4 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #2,010 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 86,747 residents and 1,505 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 75% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.

What’s watching Oak Harbor

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

What you can do in Oak Harbor

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 Oak Harbor

Stanwood (17) Port Townsend (9) Anacortes (2) Mount Vernon (14)

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