Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bedford, Texas
Volunteers have reported 30 automated license plate readers in and around Bedford — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 30 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bedford, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 22 of them sit inside Bedford itself.
The rest sit in Euless (6), Colleyville (2).
12 of them name an operator in the record: Bedford Police Department (10), Colleyville Police Department (2). 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 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Bedford
The readers mapped around Bedford break down as 24 Flock Safety, 4 of unrecorded make, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Bedford Police Department, Colleyville Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Harwood Road — 6 readers
- Central Drive — 5 readers
- Bedford Road — 4 readers
- Forest Ridge Drive — 3 readers
- Cheek-Sparger Road — 2 readers
- Murphy Drive — 2 readers
- Pipeline Road — 1 reader
- Westpark Way — 1 reader
- West Airport Freeway — 1 reader
- Brown Trail — 1 reader
- West Euless Boulevard — 1 reader
- East Euless Boulevard — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Bedford — all on the live map above.
Bedford TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bedford TX PD runs 28 cameras of its own, has logged 192 plate-database searches, has captured 420,795 vehicle records. Its network connects to 365 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: 1st Judicial District, Abilene TX PD, Addison TX PD, Aldine ISD PD TX, Allen TX PD, Altoona IA PD, Alvarado TX PD, Alvin TX PD.
Bedford in the Tarrant County picture
Tarrant County has 921 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #654 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 2,135,743 residents and 6,669 road miles. By road density that is 0.14 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 28 traffic. Operators named on the record: Bedford Police Department (10), Colleyville Police Department (2).
What’s watching Bedford
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 Bedford — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bedford (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bedford
- On the agenda: Bedford meeting — automated license plate (Jul 14)
- On the agenda: Bedford meeting — LPR camera (Jan 13)
What you can do in Bedford
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 Bedford
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).