Flock & ALPR Cameras in Prairie Heights, Washington
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Prairie Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Prairie Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Prairie Heights itself.
The rest sit in Bonney Lake (6).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Prairie Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Prairie Heights
The readers mapped around Prairie Heights break down as 5 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- State Route 410 East — 4 readers
- 234th Avenue East — 1 reader
- 233rd Avenue East — 1 reader
Prairie Heights in the Pierce County picture
Pierce County has 175 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,426 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 924,106 residents and 5,077 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 18.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
What’s watching Prairie Heights
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 Prairie Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Prairie Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Prairie Heights
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 Prairie Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).