July 27, 2026
Washington held 18 records on the tracker on July 27, 2026: 9 active, 4 suspended, 4 canceled, 1 rejected, and $866,333 in documented public spending. No state packed more turns into the last 12 months, and 1 law sits under most of them.
The law that rewrote the contracts
In February 2026 a county judge ruled that reader footage counts as a public record. Cities paused their networks rather than hand out the data. Senate Bill 6002, signed March 30, exempted the footage from the Public Records Act, and the pause reversed: Everett reactivated its 68 cameras in early April at the mayor’s direction, and Stanwood announced its reactivation April 1. Everett’s network is the state’s biggest documented deal, a 2-year, $550,000 contract signed in June 2024 and fully grant funded.
Edmonds read the same law and left
Edmonds approved a 2-year contract in October 2024 for 19 cameras, paid entirely by a $131,880 Washington Auto Theft Prevention Authority grant. The network sat paused from December 2025, and Mayor Mike Rosen announced the cancellation at the May 26, 2026 meeting, citing records of federal access to the network and a reported FBI plan to buy nationwide reader access. Same statute, opposite exit.
The sheriffs shut down
Both big-county sheriff networks sit dark. The Spokane County sheriff shut the county’s Flock network down citing SB 6002, Seattle Red reported, and Pierce County shut its cameras down as well. Both records carry Suspended status until documents show a restart or an end.
Olympia’s deadline passed quietly
Olympia voted December 2, 2025 to suspend its 2-year pilot of 15 cameras at 6 intersections; crews hooded the cameras the next day. The suspension left the contract alive, and it runs through July 2026. The contract term ran out July 31; the city document page lists nothing from 2026, so what happened at the deadline is pending records as of August 4.
Lynnwood paid to leave
Lynnwood terminated its $38,453.50 contract in February 2026 on a unanimous council vote, forfeiting the remaining contract value under the early-exit terms. Police had turned the cameras off in October 2025 after learning outside agencies could run searches, and a University of Washington report found out-of-state agencies accessed the network in ways consistent with immigration enforcement. The system had run for 8 months.
The Snohomish wave
The active column comes mostly from 1 county. Sultan, Mukilteo, Monroe, Mill Creek, Marysville, Lake Stevens, and Arlington all run Flock networks documented through regional reporting on the county’s camera build-out. They entered the tracker in a single sweep, and most still lack approval dates and amounts, which the records say plainly.
The other outcomes
Redmond suspended all 24 of its cameras by council action on November 3, 2025 while it evaluates a contract that runs to roughly June 2027. Gig Harbor rejected installation outright on March 24, 2025; no contract was ever signed. Mountlake Terrace and Stevenson round out the canceled column.
Grants built the network
The 2 fully documented purchases in the state share a funding source type: neither touched a general fund at signing. Everett’s $550,000 deal was fully grant funded, and Edmonds paid its entire $131,880 contract with a Washington Auto Theft Prevention Authority grant. Grant money lowers the bar a purchase has to clear, and it also means a council can end a program without writing off local dollars, which is part of how Edmonds left cleanly while Lynnwood forfeited remaining value on a locally funded deal.
Tied with Texas, built differently
Washington’s 18 records tie Texas for the most of any state in the tracker, and the 2 columns could not read more differently. Texas holds the biggest city contracts in the dataset and a rejection wave on the Gulf Coast. Washington has 1 large grant-funded city network, a county-by-county sheriff shutdown, and more suspended records than any other state. The difference is the statute: Texas has passed no ALPR law at all, while Washington rewrote its rules mid-contract and every operator had to respond.
What to watch
Olympia’s lapsed term is the state’s open question. Redmond’s evaluation has no published end. The 2 sheriff networks stay suspended until records show otherwise, and the states page keeps the totals live as each record moves.
Find your city. The tracker lists every documented Flock contract, the vote that approved it, and the renewal date. Alerts email you before the next decision.