Flock & ALPR Cameras in Allen, Texas
Volunteers have reported 76 automated license plate readers in and around Allen — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 76 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Allen, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 54 of them sit inside Allen itself.
The rest sit in Plano (12), McKinney (7), Frisco (2), Fairview (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Frisco 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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- Sep 29 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Allen
The readers mapped around Allen break down as 45 Flock Safety, 25 Motorola Solutions, 5 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Frisco Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Exchange Parkway — 5 readers
- Watters Road — 4 readers
- Andrews Parkway — 4 readers
- South Central Expressway — 4 readers
- West McDermott Drive — 4 readers
- South Greenville Avenue — 3 readers
- West Bethany Drive — 3 readers
- West Stacy Road — 3 readers
- South Watters Road — 3 readers
- Watters Creek Boulevard — 3 readers
- East Main Street — 2 readers
- Legacy Drive — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Allen — all on the live map above.
Allen TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Allen TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 47 other agencies.
Allen in the Collin County picture
Collin County has 575 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #490 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 22.9% nationally. That’s across 1,116,601 residents and 4,279 road miles. By road density that is 0.13 cameras per road mile, in the top 3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 49 traffic, 2 public, 2 parking. Operators named on the record: Frisco Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Allen, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for Allen. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Allen
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 Allen — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Allen (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Allen
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Allen, TX
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Allen, TX
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Allen, TX
- McAllen Mayor Says City and Police Do Not Use Flock Surveillance Cameras
What you can do in Allen
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 Allen
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).