Flock & ALPR Cameras in Tri-Cities, Washington
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Tri-Cities — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Tri-Cities, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Tri-Cities itself.
The rest sit in Kennewick (5), Pasco (2), Richland (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Richland Police (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 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Tri-Cities
The readers mapped around Tri-Cities break down as 6 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Richland Police. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Broadmoor Boulevard — 2 readers
- Columbia Park Trail — 1 reader
- West Canal Drive — 1 reader
- North Edison Street — 1 reader
- West Okanogan Place — 1 reader
Tri-Cities in the Benton County picture
Benton County has 41 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,397 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 210,224 residents and 2,934 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 36.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic. Operators named on the record: Richland Police (1).
What’s watching Tri-Cities
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 Tri-Cities — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Tri-Cities (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Tri-Cities
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Tri-Cities, WA
- Olympia Shooting Investigation Leads to Arrests in the Tri-Cities
- Are Tri-Cities Flock traffic cameras being misused by ICE, others?
What you can do in Tri-Cities
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 Tri-Cities
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).