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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Smokey Point, Washington

Volunteers have reported 27 automated license plate readers in and around Smokey Point — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 27 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Smokey Point, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Smokey Point itself.

The rest sit in Arlington (16), Marysville (10).

2 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (2). 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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1.2%
of Washington’s reported cameras
Live camera map 27 reported cameras around Smokey Point, 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 Smokey Point

No new reports near Smokey Point in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 02:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Smokey Point

The readers mapped around Smokey Point break down as 26 Flock Safety, 1 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Smokey Point Boulevard — 7 readers
  • 51st Avenue Northeast — 3 readers
  • 172nd Street Northeast — 3 readers
  • 67th Avenue Northeast — 2 readers
  • State Highway 530 Northeast — 2 readers
  • 152nd Street Northeast — 2 readers
  • State Avenue — 1 reader
  • Spring Lane Avenue — 1 reader
  • 27th Avenue Northeast — 1 reader
  • Twin Lakes Avenue — 1 reader
  • 169th Street — 1 reader
  • 164th Street Northeast — 1 reader

+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Smokey Point — all on the live map above.

Smokey Point in the Snohomish County picture

Snohomish County has 294 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #879 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 834,648 residents and 4,750 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.7% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 23 traffic, 2 entrance. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (2).

Camera activity around Smokey Point, last 30 days

3 newly reported, 4 removed in our hourly change log for Smokey Point. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.

What’s watching Smokey Point

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

The latest around Smokey Point

What you can do in Smokey Point

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.

Cameras near Smokey Point

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