Flock & ALPR Cameras in Brownsville, Texas
Volunteers have reported 34 automated license plate readers in and around Brownsville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Brownsville
The readers mapped around Brownsville break down as 23 Flock Safety, 7 of unrecorded make, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Customs and Border Protection. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Barnard Road — 4 readers
- Southmost Road — 3 readers
- Morningside Road — 2 readers
- Old Port Isabel Road — 2 readers
- South Padre Island Highway — 2 readers
- International Boulevard — 2 readers
- West Rail Trail — 2 readers
- Mexico Boulevard — 1 reader
- East Elizabeth Street — 1 reader
- Texas Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway — 1 reader
- West University Boulevard — 1 reader
- Palm Boulevard — 1 reader
+ 9 more streets and roads mapped around Brownsville — all on the live map above.
Brownsville TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Brownsville TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 25 other agencies.
Brownsville in the Cameron County picture
Cameron County has 38 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,812 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 423,192 residents and 2,800 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 37% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 28 traffic. Operators named on the record: Customs and Border Protection (3).
Camera activity around Brownsville, last 30 days
11 newly reported, 8 removed in our hourly change log for Brownsville. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Brownsville
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 Brownsville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Brownsville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Brownsville
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Brownsville, TX
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Brownsville, TX
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Brownsville, TX
- 8 license plate readers reported removed near Brownsville, TX
What you can do in Brownsville
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 Brownsville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).