Flock & ALPR Cameras in Balch Springs, Texas
Volunteers have reported 53 automated license plate readers in and around Balch Springs — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 53 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Balch Springs, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Balch Springs itself.
The rest sit in Dallas (40), Mesquite (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 21 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Balch Springs
The readers mapped around Balch Springs break down as 52 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Lake June Road — 5 readers
- Elam Road — 5 readers
- Bruton Road — 5 readers
- North Jim Miller Road — 4 readers
- North Prairie Creek Road — 4 readers
- North Masters Drive — 4 readers
- North Saint Augustine Road — 3 readers
- South Buckner Boulevard — 3 readers
- South Belt Line Road — 3 readers
- Seagoville Road — 2 readers
- Forney Road — 2 readers
- Hickory Tree Road — 1 reader
+ 11 more streets and roads mapped around Balch Springs — all on the live map above.
Balch Springs TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Balch Springs TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 24 other agencies.
Balch Springs 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 50 traffic.
Camera activity around Balch Springs, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Balch Springs. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Balch Springs
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 Balch Springs — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Balch Springs (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Balch Springs
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Balch Springs, TX
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Balch Springs, TX
What you can do in Balch Springs
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 Balch Springs
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).