Surveillance report card
Tri-Cities, WA
61 license-plate readers and surveillance cameras are mapped within about 25 miles of Tri-Cities — the 162nd most of any U.S. metro we track, and 89% of them were added since 2024.
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Cameras mapped · ~25 mi
Where they are
Every mapped reader within range of Tri-Cities, live from the open dataset. Pan and zoom freely; tap any camera on the full map to confirm or flag it.
How fast it grew
Cameras in the Tri-Cities area by the year they entered the public record. The recent surge tracks a real, nationwide buildout of automatic plate readers — not a mapping artifact.
Live community activity
Updated in real time from contributions made here on the web and in the CivilGPS app — the same shared, open dataset.
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Active road reports (2h)
How these numbers are made. We count every camera on the open OpenStreetMap / DeFlock record within roughly 25 miles of Tri-Cities's center, then rank that metro against 170 others. Suburbs fold into their principal city, so each metro is counted once. "Added since 2024" uses the date a camera entered the public map — an approximation of when it was deployed, not an exact install date. The data is community-maintained and may be incomplete; figures describe what has been mapped, not a guarantee of every device present. Licensed
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