Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sammamish, Washington
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Sammamish — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sammamish, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Sammamish itself.
The rest sit in Redmond (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: City of Redmond (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 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Sammamish
The readers mapped around Sammamish break down as 2 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: City of Redmond. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2025.
- Northeast Redmond Fall City Road — 1 reader
- East Lake Sammamish Parkway Northeast — 1 reader
Sammamish 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.
Operators named on the record: City of Redmond (2).
What’s watching Sammamish
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 Sammamish — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sammamish (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Sammamish
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 Sammamish
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).