Flock & ALPR Cameras in Stanwood, Washington
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Stanwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Cameras Deactivated
Stanwood is on the record here. The City of Stanwood decided to shut off its Flock cameras pending a court judgment on whether data collected by Flock cameras are considered public records.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Stanwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 16 of them sit inside Stanwood itself.
The rest sit in North Stanwood (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 22 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 22 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 22 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Stanwood
The readers mapped around Stanwood break down as 14 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Pioneer Highway — 4 readers
- 72nd Avenue Northwest — 2 readers
- 268th Street Northwest — 2 readers
- State Route 532 — 1 reader
- Marine Drive — 1 reader
- 92nd Avenue Northwest — 1 reader
- 68th Avenue Northwest — 1 reader
- Woodland Road — 1 reader
- 276th Street Northwest — 1 reader
- 80th Avenue Northwest — 1 reader
Stanwood WA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Stanwood WA PD runs 10 cameras of its own, has captured 82,332 vehicle records. Its network connects to 15 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Stanwood 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 15 traffic.
Camera activity around Stanwood, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Stanwood. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Stanwood
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 Stanwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Stanwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Stanwood
- Stanwood council hears Flock camera concerns, advances uptown park plan
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Stanwood, WA
- Locals urge Stanwood council to 'cover the cameras' as debate surrounding Flock continues
- Judge rules against cities of Sedro - Woolley , Stanwood in Flock camera case
What you can do in Stanwood
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 Stanwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).