Perfect World

Surveillance procurement

How Washington Bought ALPR

Automated licence-plate readers arrive by a vote. This is the paper trail behind those votes across Washington — the original contracts, every renewal and amendment that followed, and the staff reports that were in front of the council when it decided. Where a staff report and the contract it accompanied describe different things, that comparison is set out here with both passages quoted.

2
Jurisdictions with a contract on file
8
Contracts and amendments
2019
Earliest contract found
Committed in documents we hold
2 / 28
Portals swept

What we hold, jurisdiction by jurisdiction

JurisdictionPortalFirst contractDocumentsCamerasCommittedFindings
SeattleLegistar20197129
RedmondLegistar20251

Where we have not found the record

A gap means the record was not found on the jurisdiction's public portal. It is not a statement that the record does not exist, and it is not a statement about whether the jurisdiction operates ALPR.

JurisdictionKindPortalStatus
SpokanecityNo portal foundNot yet swept
TacomacityNo portal foundNot yet swept
VancouvercitycivicclerkNot yet swept
BellevuecityLegistarNot yet swept
KentcityGranicusNot yet swept
EverettcityCivicEngageNot yet swept
RentoncityNo portal foundNot yet swept
YakimacityGranicusNot yet swept
Federal WaycityNo portal foundNot yet swept
Spokane ValleycityNo portal foundNot yet swept
KirklandcityNo portal foundNot yet swept
BellinghamcityNo portal foundNot yet swept
KennewickcitycivicclerkNot yet swept
AuburncityGranicusNot yet swept
PascocityCivicWebNot yet swept
MarysvillecitycivicclerkNot yet swept
LakewoodcityNo portal foundNot yet swept
ShorelinecityNo portal foundNot yet swept
RichlandcitycivicclerkNot yet swept
SammamishcityCivicWebNot yet swept
BuriencityCivicWebNot yet swept
OlympiacityLegistarNot yet swept
LaceycitycivicclerkNot yet swept
EdmondscityGranicusNot yet swept
BremertoncityCivicEngageNot yet swept
PuyallupcityNo portal foundNot yet swept

Documents are archived copies of what the jurisdiction published, kept because municipal portals do not use permanent links. Every figure shown is either quoted from a document or marked as not stated. A dash means the record does not say, which is never the same as zero.