Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sumner, Washington
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Sumner — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sumner, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Sumner itself.
The rest sit in Puyallup (5).
13 of them name an operator in the record: Sumner Police (6), Puyallup Police (5), WSDOT (2). 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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No new reports near Sumner in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Sumner
The readers mapped around Sumner break down as 12 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make, 2 Kapsch. Named operators in the reports: Sumner Police, Puyallup Police, WSDOT. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- Main Street — 3 readers
- East Pioneer Avenue — 2 readers
- Valley Freeway — 2 readers
- Main Street East — 2 readers
- Shaw Road — 1 reader
- Riverwalk Trail — 1 reader
- Traffic Avenue — 1 reader
- Foothills Trail — 1 reader
- Valley Avenue — 1 reader
- Wood Avenue — 1 reader
- Parker Road East — 1 reader
Sumner WA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Sumner WA PD runs 12 cameras of its own, has logged 24 plate-database searches, has captured 197,968 vehicle records. Its network connects to 85 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Aberdeen WA PD, Adams County WA SO, Airway Heights WA PD, Arlington WA PD, Auburn WA PD, Benton County WA SO, Brewster WA PD, Centralia WA PD.
Sumner in the Pierce County picture
Pierce County has 175 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,426 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 924,106 residents and 5,077 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 18.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: Sumner Police (6), Puyallup Police (5), WSDOT (2).
What’s watching Sumner
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 Sumner — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sumner (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Sumner
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 Sumner
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).