Flock & ALPR Cameras in Buda, Texas
Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around Buda — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 24 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Buda, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 14 of them sit inside Buda itself.
The rest sit in Kyle (5).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Kyle Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
5 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Buda in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Buda
The readers mapped around Buda break down as 24 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Kyle Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Garlic Creek Drive — 4 readers
- Ruby Ranch Road — 2 readers
- Hartung Cove — 2 readers
- South FM 1626 — 2 readers
- North FM 1626 — 2 readers
- North Main Street — 1 reader
- Cabelas Drive — 1 reader
- Ranch to Market Road 967 — 1 reader
- Windy Hill Road — 1 reader
- Kyle Crossing — 1 reader
- Salle Avenue — 1 reader
- Cullen Boulevard — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Buda — all on the live map above.
Buda TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Buda TX PD runs 6 cameras of its own, has logged 40 plate-database searches. Its network connects to 25 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Buda in the Hays County picture
Hays County has 106 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #696 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 256,429 residents and 1,749 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 24 traffic. Operators named on the record: Kyle Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Buda, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Buda. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Buda
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 Buda — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Buda (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Buda
What you can do in Buda
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 Buda
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).