Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed
Mercer Island is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.
Our records document automated license plate reader use in Mercer Island, Washington recorded for Mercer Island Police Department, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 1 individual ALPR camera location mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 1 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
Agency
Mercer Island Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
King County
State
Washington (WA)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
The Mercer Island Police Department purchased automated license plate readers for three vehicles July 2020.
Sources · record AOS007589
These entries document that an agency has been reported to use ALPR technology. They do not establish camera counts, exact locations, cost, retention periods or sharing policies unless the linked source says so.
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Everything on this page traces back to the records below. Where a record carries no linked document, we say so instead of filling the gap.
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
1 mapped camera point inside the Mercer Island boundary, from OpenStreetMap contributors via the DeFlock ↗ dataset (ODbL). Each point links to its own OpenStreetMap record in the camera list on this page.
Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.
Other Washington communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
Renton's council declined both to direct non-renewal of the Flock contract and, narrowly, to switch the cameras back on, leaving them off pending a public town hall on the technology. The current contract expires in November, and several councilmembers said they would rather negotiate a new one than simply renew this one.
Renton ReporterAug 14, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
Edmonds council members voted unanimously to cancel a Flock contract after a procedural error in how it was approved, the Herald reported.
The Everett HeraldJun 10, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed the Driver Privacy Act, which sets limits on license plate reader data and its sharing, KOMO reported.
KOMO NewsMar 30, 2026News reportingOther ALPR
Camera counts, contract prices, retention and sharing policies are shown only where we found a primary source. Where they're missing, the information is not publicly verified — see the Flock Files for the documents we do have.
Data attribution
Portions of the surveillance deployment data on this site come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org ↗ Are You Flocked? is independent and is not affiliated with the EFF or Flock Safety. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
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