Flock & ALPR Cameras in Amarillo, Texas
Volunteers have reported 141 automated license plate readers in and around Amarillo — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Amarillo
The readers mapped around Amarillo break down as 141 Flock Safety, 1 Axon Enterprise, 1 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Amarillo Police Department, Lowe's, Amarillo Police Depart. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- South Coulter Street — 9 readers
- Southwest 45th Avenue — 8 readers
- Bell Street — 7 readers
- West Interstate Drive — 7 readers
- West Amarillo Boulevard — 7 readers
- Southwest 3rd Avenue — 6 readers
- Zuni Trail — 6 readers
- South Georgia Street — 5 readers
- East Amarillo Boulevard — 4 readers
- North Grand Street — 4 readers
- Martin Luther King Boulevard/NE 24th Ave — 4 readers
- South Western Street — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Amarillo — all on the live map above.
Amarillo TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Amarillo TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 115 other agencies.
Amarillo in the Potter County picture
Potter County has 88 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #216 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 10.1% nationally. That’s across 116,634 residents and 2,043 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 115 traffic. Operators named on the record: Amarillo Police Department (76), Lowe's (2), Amarillo Police Depart (1).
Camera activity around Amarillo, last 30 days
8 newly reported in our hourly change log for Amarillo. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Amarillo
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 Amarillo — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Amarillo (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Amarillo
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Amarillo, TX
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Amarillo, TX
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Amarillo, TX
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Amarillo, TX
What you can do in Amarillo
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.
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Cameras near Amarillo
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).