Washington
Douglas County
On record
Checked 27 Aug 2026- Technologies
- 1
- Systems
- 1
- Devices mapped
- 24
Douglas County, Washington. Device data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), with community reporting via DeFlock. Open the full map →
Douglas County’s minutes show a plate reader network arriving, surviving the new state law, and then finding a second job. The cameras came through a joint state auto-theft grant with East Wenatchee, approved by the commissioners in November 2024, fifteen cameras between the city and the county per the Atlas of Surveillance. When Washington’s plate reader law took effect in the spring of 2026, this board did not flinch: ten weeks in, its minutes record that the “Board is supportive of Flock cameras in the County right-of-way”. And by July 2026 the Sheriff had installed a Flock camera at the county dump to monitor scrap-metal drop-off, a use with no evident connection to the auto-theft grant that bought the network. The records request asks for the authority and data-handling behind that camera specifically.
The rest of the record is sketched in staff reports: a thermal-imaging drone pilot program mentioned once in August 2024 and never again in the window we read, an AI policy assigned to three county staff in September 2025, and a “Flock System Update” delivered to the board by the chief deputy prosecutor in February 2026, whose materials the records request also asks for. Whether deputies wear body cameras is not in the readable record, sixty-one of the board’s minutes are scanned images with no text layer, and the question is asked rather than answered.
What this record does not cover
The scanned-image minutes. East Wenatchee’s half of the camera network and Wenatchee’s police across the river, municipal, never merged into county counts.
Community contributors have mapped 24 devices across the county in OpenStreetMap. That count covers every agency and business at once and is never merged with anything above.
What's in use here
Bought jointly with East Wenatchee on an auto-theft grant, kept through the 2026 law with the board's minuted support, and extended to watching the county dump.
Who runs it
The agency is the accountability unit: who voted, whose policy applies, and who answers a records request.
| Agency | Jurisdiction | Systems |
|---|---|---|
| Douglas County Sheriff's Office | Douglas County | 1 |
| 1 agency on record. A jointly run system counts against each of its operators, so this column is not a county total. | ||
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Meetings, contracts, records
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