Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bay City, Texas
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Bay City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Bay City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Bay City
The readers mapped around Bay City break down as 15 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- Avenue F — 3 readers
- TX 60 — 2 readers
- 12th Street — 2 readers
- TX 35 — 2 readers
- Nichols Avenue — 1 reader
- 6th Street — 1 reader
- County Road 359 — 1 reader
- Farm-to-Market Road 457 — 1 reader
- 7th Street — 1 reader
- 5th Street — 1 reader
Bay City TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bay City TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 26 other agencies.
Bay City in the Matagorda County picture
Matagorda County has 25 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #269 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.5% nationally. That’s across 36,274 residents and 2,644 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 44.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 13 traffic.
What’s watching Bay City
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 Bay City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bay City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bay City
What you can do in Bay City
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 Bay City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).