Flock & ALPR Cameras in Yakima, Washington
Volunteers have reported 100 automated license plate readers in and around Yakima — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Jun 16, 2026 On the agenda: Yakima City Council Regular Meeting - Jun 16, 2026 — Flock Safety (Jun 16)
- Jun 9, 2026 On the agenda: Yakima City Council Regular Meeting - Jun 09, 2026 — License Plate Reader (Jun 9)
- Jan 13, 2026 On the agenda: Yakima City Council Study Session - Jan 13, 2026 — License Plate Recognition (Jan 13)
- Aug 19, 2025 On the agenda: Yakima City Council Regular Meeting - Aug 19, 2025 — Flock Safety (Aug 19)
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- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 40 new license plate readers just reported around Yakima, WA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Yakima
Where the cameras are in Yakima
The readers mapped around Yakima break down as 97 Flock Safety, 1 Leonardo, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: City of Yakima. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Nob Hill Boulevard — 7 readers
- East Yakima Avenue — 7 readers
- North 1st Street — 5 readers
- Fruitvale Boulevard — 4 readers
- Summitview Avenue — 4 readers
- East Walnut Street — 4 readers
- East D Street — 4 readers
- West Nob Hill Boulevard — 3 readers
- South 16th Avenue — 3 readers
- East I Street — 3 readers
- East Chestnut Avenue — 3 readers
- West Washington Avenue — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Yakima — all on the live map above.
Yakima WA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Yakima WA PD has logged 377 plate-database searches, has captured 311,556 vehicle records. Its network connects to 95 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, Centralia WA PD, Chehalis Tribe Law Enforcement WA.
Yakima in the Yakima County picture
Yakima County has 235 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #130 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 6% nationally. That’s across 256,605 residents and 8,258 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 22.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 59 traffic. Operators named on the record: City of Yakima (22).
Camera activity around Yakima, last 30 days
10 removed in our hourly change log for Yakima. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Yakima
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 Yakima — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Yakima (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Yakima
- Yakima's Flock Cameras Are Being Cut Down
- Flock Cameras Cut Down Across Yakima
- 2 more Yakima Flock cameras cut down; 3 total in the last 2 months
- Yakima County deputies identify hit-and-run suspect using Flock camera system
What you can do in Yakima
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 Yakima
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).