Flock & ALPR Cameras in Richland, Washington
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Richland — 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 Richland, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Richland itself.
The rest sit in West Richland (2).
7 of them name an operator in the record: Richland Police (6), West Richland Police (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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- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Richland
The readers mapped around Richland break down as 11 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Richland Police, West Richland Police. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- George Washington Way — 3 readers
- Keene Road Trail — 1 reader
- Wellsian Way — 1 reader
- Reata Road — 1 reader
- Jadwin Avenue — 1 reader
- Tanglewood Drive — 1 reader
- Keene Road — 1 reader
- Trowbridge Boulevard — 1 reader
- Kennedy Road — 1 reader
Richland PD WA and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Richland PD WA runs 10 cameras of its own. Its network connects to 22 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Richland in the Benton County picture
Benton County has 41 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,397 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 210,224 residents and 2,934 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 36.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic. Operators named on the record: Richland Police (6), West Richland Police (1).
Camera activity around Richland, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Richland. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching Richland
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 Richland — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Richland (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Richland
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Richland, WA
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Richland, WA
- Richland temporarily turns off Flock, Axon license plate readers to comply with new Washington law
- 4 license plate readers reported removed near West Richland, WA
What you can do in Richland
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 Richland
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).