Cameras / Washington / Des Moines
License plate readers in Des Moines, WA
Volunteers have documented 19 automated license plate readers inside Des Moines. That is the 26th-largest total among the 54 Washington cities indexed here, and 0.9% of the statewide total. At 3.0 per square mile it is more densely covered than 77% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Safeway. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 5 on poles and 5 on buildings.
Updated August 14, 2026.
19
readers documented
3.0
per square mile
26th
of 54 indexed Washington cities
0.9%
of Washington’s documented total
Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Who makes them
- Flock Safety12 · 63%
- Other vendors7 · 37%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 6 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Des Moines Police (10), Safeway (5), Normandy Park Police Department (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (5), building (5)
- Coverage area
- 6.4 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · Washington ALPR law
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