Flock & ALPR Cameras in Tukwila, Washington
Volunteers have reported 27 automated license plate readers in and around Tukwila — 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 Tukwila, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 24 of them sit inside Tukwila itself.
The rest sit in Renton (2), Kent (1).
9 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (8), Lowe's (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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No new reports near Tukwila in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Tukwila
The readers mapped around Tukwila break down as 19 Flock Safety, 8 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Tukwila Parkway — 7 readers
- Southcenter Boulevard — 2 readers
- Andover Park East — 2 readers
- Strander Boulevard — 2 readers
- South 43rd Street — 2 readers
- Andover Park West — 2 readers
- Macadam Road South — 2 readers
- West Valley Highway — 2 readers
- 66th Avenue South — 1 reader
- Evans Black Drive — 1 reader
- Southcenter Parkway — 1 reader
- Minkler Boulevard — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Tukwila — all on the live map above.
Tukwila WA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Tukwila WA PD runs 37 cameras of its own, has logged 138 plate-database searches, has captured 534,332 vehicle records. Its network connects to 87 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Aberdeen WA PD, Airway Heights WA PD, Arlington WA PD, Auburn WA PD, Benton County WA SO, Black Diamond WA PD, Brewster WA PD, Centralia WA PD.
Tukwila 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 14 traffic, 4 street, 3 parking. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (8), Lowe's (1).
What’s watching Tukwila
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 Tukwila — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Tukwila (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Tukwila
What you can do in Tukwila
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 Tukwila
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).