Flock & ALPR Cameras in Addison, Texas
Volunteers have reported 271 automated license plate readers in and around Addison — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 271 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Addison, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 70 of them sit inside Addison itself.
The rest sit in Dallas (102), Plano (53), Farmers Branch (27), Carrollton (19).
26 of them name an operator in the record: Dallas Police Department (13), Carrollton Police Department (3), Farmers Branch PD (3), Lowe's (3), Plano Police Department (3), Farmers Branch Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 19 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 8 new license plate readers just reported around Addison, TX. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Addison
Where the cameras are in Addison
The readers mapped around Addison break down as 214 Flock Safety, 44 Motorola Solutions, 8 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Dallas Police Department, Plano Police Department, Farmers Branch PD, Lowe's, Carrollton Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Midway Road — 22 readers
- Preston Road — 13 readers
- Arapaho Road — 12 readers
- Marsh Lane — 12 readers
- Inwood Road — 12 readers
- West Plano Parkway — 11 readers
- Spring Valley Road — 11 readers
- Belt Line Road — 11 readers
- Montfort Drive — 9 readers
- Frankford Road — 9 readers
- Noel Road — 6 readers
- Dallas Parkway — 6 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Addison — all on the live map above.
Addison TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Addison TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 43 other agencies.
Addison in the Dallas County picture
Dallas County has 1,307 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #509 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 23.8% nationally. That’s across 2,603,816 residents and 6,164 road miles. By road density that is 0.21 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 221 traffic, 3 entrance, 2 parking. Operators named on the record: Dallas Police Department (13), Plano Police Department (3), Farmers Branch PD (3).
Camera activity around Addison, last 30 days
20 newly reported, 5 removed in our hourly change log for Addison. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Addison
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Addison — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Addison (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Addison
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Addison, TX
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Addison, TX
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Addison, TX
- 5 license plate readers reported removed near Addison, TX
What you can do in Addison
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Addison
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).