Flock & ALPR Cameras in SeaTac, Washington
Volunteers have reported 33 automated license plate readers in and around SeaTac — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 33 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of SeaTac, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 22 of them sit inside SeaTac itself.
The rest sit in Tukwila (9), Kent (1).
9 of them name an operator in the record: SeaTac Police (7), The Home Depot (1), Tukwila Police (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in SeaTac
The readers mapped around SeaTac break down as 31 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: SeaTac Police, Tukwila Police, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- International Boulevard — 6 readers
- South 180th Street — 3 readers
- South 188th Street — 3 readers
- Military Road South — 3 readers
- Airport Expressway — 2 readers
- South 154th Street — 2 readers
- Sperry Drive — 2 readers
- South 178th Street — 1 reader
- Minkler Boulevard — 1 reader
- West Valley Highway — 1 reader
- South 160th Street — 1 reader
- Arrivals Drive — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around SeaTac — all on the live map above.
SeaTac WA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, SeaTac WA PD runs 30 cameras of its own, has logged 266 plate-database searches, has captured 422,598 vehicle records. Its network connects to 20 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Covington WA PD, King County International Airport (WA), Maple Valley WA PD, Newcastle WA PD.
SeaTac 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 15 traffic. Operators named on the record: SeaTac Police (7), Tukwila Police (1), The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around SeaTac, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for SeaTac. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching SeaTac
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 SeaTac — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to SeaTac (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around SeaTac
- SeaTac City Council bars ICE from detention center expansion, limits FLOCK Camera access to city only
- SeaTac City Council continues to debate suspending Flock cameras amid ongoing privacy concerns
What you can do in SeaTac
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 SeaTac
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).