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Snohomish County

Using license-plate readers · 14 agencies documented

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Snohomish County Sheriff's Office

Status
Using license-plate readers
Vendors
Flock Safety
  1. March 31, 2026 After the Driver Privacy Act took effect, the sheriff's office said it believed "all of our flock cameras in unincorporated Snohomish County are in compliance" with the new location limits. (KIRO 7, March 31, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Camera count not found.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Everett Police Department

Status
Using license-plate readers
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
68
The contract covers 68 Flock plate readers (Daily Herald, Apr. 22, 2026); the Flock portal listed 75 owned cameras when last updated Nov. 18, 2025.
Contract
Flock Safety: $550,000 total · from June 2024 · Two-year contract signed June 2024, fully grant funded; service began when the network launched in October 2024. (The Daily Herald (Everett), April 22, 2026)
  1. Oct. 2024 Everett's Flock network went live. (The Daily Herald (Everett), April 22, 2026; Snohomish County Tribune, Dec. 3, 2025)
  2. Nov. 18, 2025 Everett's Flock portal, last updated Nov. 18, 2025, listed 75 owned cameras, 30-day retention and 648,799 vehicles detected in the prior 30 days, and posted the department's use policy. (Flock Safety, Nov. 18, 2025)
  3. April 7, 2026 After the governor signed SB 6002 on March 30, Mayor Franklin directed police to turn the cameras back on; most were back online by April 7. (The Daily Herald (Everett), April 22, 2026)
  4. May 27, 2026 The Daily Herald reported Everett had reactivated its network after its pause. (The Daily Herald (Everett), May 27, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Before the pause, about 70 cameras read 653,939 vehicles in February 2026, per the Snohomish County Tribune.
  • The Flock portal policy says the cameras cannot be used solely for immigration enforcement and bars tracking vehicles to or from healthcare facilities without a Washington criminal nexus.
  • The city paused its network in February 2026 and had it mostly back online by April 7, 2026.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Lynnwood Police Department

Status
Ended or removed
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
25
25 readers under the 2025 contract, per The Daily Herald.
Contract
Flock Safety: $171,000 total · from Jan. 2025 · to Feb. 2026 · approved by Lynnwood City Council · Two-year contract approved unanimously; mostly paid by a Washington Auto Theft Prevention Authority grant, with $38,000 from the police budget. Terminated by the council Feb. 23, 2026. (The Daily Herald (Everett), Feb. 23, 2026)
  1. Jan. 2025 City Council unanimously approved a two-year, $171,000 contract for 25 Flock readers. (The Daily Herald (Everett), Feb. 23, 2026)
  2. June 2025 Cameras went live. (The Daily Herald (Everett), Feb. 23, 2026)
  3. Nov. 2025 Police Chief Cole Langdon paused the system after a University of Washington report on out-of-state searches; the nationwide lookup had been on for nine days before he turned it off. (The Daily Herald (Everett), Feb. 23, 2026; Snohomish County Tribune, March 4, 2026)
  4. Feb. 23, 2026 City Council voted 7-0 to cancel the Flock contract, declining Mayor George Hurst's request to wait for the Legislature to act on SB 6002. Council member Isabel Mata: "Public trust cannot be put on hold while we wait to see if safeguards might work next time." (The Daily Herald (Everett), Feb. 23, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Pause month from the Snohomish County Tribune (suspended recording in November).

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Mountlake Terrace Police Department

Status
Ended or removed
Vendors
Flock Safety
Contract
Flock Safety: $54,000 total · from June 2025 · to Dec. 2025 · approved by Mountlake Terrace City Council · Two-year contract approved 5-2; cameras never installed; canceled unanimously in December 2025 with $27,000 still owed for year one. (The Daily Herald (Everett), Dec. 5, 2025)
  1. June 2025 City Council voted 5-2 to enter a two-year, $54,000 Flock contract. (The Daily Herald (Everett), Dec. 5, 2025; Snohomish County Tribune, Dec. 3, 2025)
  2. Dec. 4, 2025 City Council voted unanimously to end the contract before any cameras were installed, on a motion by Mayor Pro Tem Bryan Wahl. (The Daily Herald (Everett), Dec. 5, 2025)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Cancellation vote was reported as "Thursday" in a Dec. 5, 2025 article; Dec. 4 inferred.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Edmonds Police Department

Status
Ended or removed
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
19
19 cameras under the 2024 contract, per The Daily Herald.
Contract
Flock Safety: $131,880 total · from Oct. 2024 · to May 2026 · approved by Edmonds City Council · Two-year contract fully funded by a $131,880 Washington Auto Theft Prevention Authority grant; canceled May 2026. (The Daily Herald (Everett), May 27, 2026)
  1. Oct. 2024 City Council approved a two-year Flock contract for 19 cameras, funded by a state auto-theft grant. (The Daily Herald (Everett), May 27, 2026)
  2. Dec. 2025 Camera network paused. (The Daily Herald (Everett), May 27, 2026)
  3. May 26, 2026 Mayor Mike Rosen announced at a council meeting that the city was canceling the Flock contract. (The Daily Herald (Everett), May 27, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Announcement reported as "Tuesday" in a May 27, 2026 article; May 26 inferred.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Marysville Police Department

Status
Using license-plate readers
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
30
30 department-owned cameras on the Flock portal, last updated Sept. 23, 2025.
  1. Sept. 23, 2025 Flock portal listed 30 cameras, 30-day retention and 446,732 vehicles detected in the prior 30 days. (Flock Safety, Sept. 23, 2025)
  2. May 2026 The Daily Herald listed Marysville among Snohomish County cities whose Flock networks remained active. (The Daily Herald (Everett), May 27, 2026)

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Stanwood Police Department

Status
Using license-plate readers
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
14
14 Flock cameras, per The Daily Herald (Apr. 1, 2026).
  1. May 2025 Stanwood shut off all 14 of its cameras after a public records request sought the camera footage. (The Daily Herald (Everett), April 1, 2026)
  2. April 1, 2026 After SB 6002 was signed, the city said it planned to turn the cameras back on in early April while staff reviewed camera locations against the new rules; Mayor Sid Roberts praised the Legislature's action and Police Chief Glenn DeWitt said the department would follow the new law. (The Daily Herald (Everett), April 1, 2026; The Daily Herald (Everett), April 22, 2026)
  3. Aug. 27, 2026 FOX 13 reported Stanwood among agencies using Flock cameras, per Flock. (FOX 13 Seattle, Aug. 27, 2026)

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Snohomish Police Department

Status
Program documented, current use unconfirmed
Vendors
Flock Safety
  1. 2025 The city bought Flock cameras in 2025 but did not install them. (Snohomish County Tribune, July 15, 2026; Snohomish County Tribune, March 4, 2026)
  2. May 2026 City Council advised holding off on putting the cameras up until the state Attorney General's office issues model guidance. (Snohomish County Tribune, July 15, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Two Flock cameras at the Snohomish Station plaza are a private installation, per City Administrator Ken Klein.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Monroe Police Department

Status
Using license-plate readers
Vendors
Flock Safety
  1. March 2026 Monroe kept its Flock cameras on after Everett's pause; it planned 22 cameras and had more than a dozen installed, and said it does not provide Flock data to federal immigration enforcement. (Snohomish County Tribune, March 4, 2026)
  2. May 2026 The Daily Herald listed Monroe among Snohomish County cities whose Flock networks remained active. (The Daily Herald (Everett), May 27, 2026)

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Mill Creek Police Department

Status
Using license-plate readers
Vendors
Flock Safety
  1. March 2026 Snohomish County Tribune listed Mill Creek among county cities with Flock cameras. (Snohomish County Tribune, March 4, 2026)
  2. May 2026 The Daily Herald listed Mill Creek among Snohomish County cities whose Flock networks remained active. (The Daily Herald (Everett), May 27, 2026)

Secondhand report; not yet confirmed with the agency.

Mukilteo Police Department

Status
Using license-plate readers
Vendors
Flock Safety
  1. March 2026 Snohomish County Tribune listed Mukilteo among county cities with Flock cameras. (Snohomish County Tribune, March 4, 2026)
  2. May 2026 The Daily Herald listed Mukilteo among Snohomish County cities whose Flock networks remained active. (The Daily Herald (Everett), May 27, 2026)

Secondhand report; not yet confirmed with the agency.

Lake Stevens Police Department

Status
Using license-plate readers
Vendors
Flock Safety
  1. March 2026 Snohomish County Tribune listed Lake Stevens among county cities with Flock cameras. (Snohomish County Tribune, March 4, 2026)
  2. May 2026 The Daily Herald listed Lake Stevens among Snohomish County cities whose Flock networks remained active. (The Daily Herald (Everett), May 27, 2026)

Secondhand report; not yet confirmed with the agency.

Sultan Police Department

Status
Using license-plate readers
Vendors
Flock Safety
  1. March 2026 Snohomish County Tribune listed Sultan among county cities with Flock cameras. (Snohomish County Tribune, March 4, 2026)
  2. May 2026 The Daily Herald listed Sultan among Snohomish County cities whose Flock networks remained active. (The Daily Herald (Everett), May 27, 2026)

Secondhand report; not yet confirmed with the agency.

Granite Falls Police Department

Status
Program documented, current use unconfirmed
Vendors
Flock Safety
  1. March 2026 Snohomish County Tribune listed Granite Falls among county cities with Flock cameras. (Snohomish County Tribune, March 4, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
  • A March 2026 list of county cities with Flock cameras includes Granite Falls; a May 2026 list of active county networks does not, so current use is unconfirmed.

Secondhand report; not yet confirmed with the agency.

Statewide

  1. 2025 A University of Washington Center for Human Rights report on Flock networks in the state said as many as 80 public agencies in Washington reportedly use Flock, and examined how agencies share the data, including with federal agencies. (University of Washington Center for Human Rights, Oct. 21, 2025)
  2. Feb. 4, 2026 The state Senate passed Senate Bill 6002, sponsored by Sen. Yasmin Trudeau (D-Tacoma), 40-9. At that stage the bill required plate-reader data to be deleted within 21 days unless needed as evidence (a Senate committee had lengthened this from 72 hours), largely barred sharing, banned use for civil immigration enforcement and kept the data out of public records requests, apart from use in research. (Washington State Standard / KUOW, Feb. 5, 2026)
  3. March 2026 The state House passed SB 6002 84-10 in early March 2026. The House version added gross misdemeanors to the permitted investigative uses, and the bill returned to the Senate for concurrence. (Washington State Standard, March 6, 2026)
  4. March 30, 2026 Gov. Bob Ferguson signed SB 6002 on March 30, 2026, and it took effect at once. Police may now run plate searches only for felony or gross-misdemeanor cases, stolen cars, cars linked to people with arrest warrants, and missing or endangered people (with exceptions). Reads must be purged after 21 days unless kept as evidence, and they can be shared only for court cases. The law forbids using the readers for immigration enforcement or to monitor protected activity such as speech. It forbids collecting data near protected health care or immigration sites, schools, courts, food banks and houses of worship. Agencies must log who accessed the data and keep those logs for two years, and the data is closed to public records requests except for research. (Washington State Standard / KUOW, March 31, 2026)
  5. March 30, 2026 SB 6002 directs the Attorney General's Office to develop model plate-reader policies by July 1, 2027. Agencies must adopt them by December 2027. (Washington State Standard / KUOW, March 31, 2026; Washington State Standard, March 6, 2026)
  6. March 30, 2026 Flock Safety said it was already complying with parts of the law, such as purging data after 21 days. (Washington State Standard / KUOW, March 31, 2026)