Flock & ALPR Cameras in Carrollton, Texas
Volunteers have reported 78 automated license plate readers in and around Carrollton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 78 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Carrollton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 68 of them sit inside Carrollton itself.
The rest sit in Farmers Branch (7), Coppell (2), Addison (1).
10 of them name an operator in the record: Carrollton Police Department (8), Farmers Branch 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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No new reports near Carrollton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Carrollton
The readers mapped around Carrollton break down as 55 Flock Safety, 23 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Carrollton Police Department, Farmers Branch Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- East Belt Line Road — 10 readers
- North Josey Lane — 8 readers
- South Josey Lane — 8 readers
- Old Denton Road — 5 readers
- Keller Springs Road — 4 readers
- East Trinity Mills Road — 4 readers
- West Frankford Road — 4 readers
- West Trinity Mills Road — 2 readers
- East Frankford Road — 2 readers
- West Belt Line Road — 2 readers
- Rosemeade Park Road — 2 readers
- South Broadway Street — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Carrollton — all on the live map above.
Carrollton TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Carrollton TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 22 other agencies.
Carrollton 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 59 traffic, 4 street, 3 entrance. Operators named on the record: Carrollton Police Department (8), Farmers Branch Police Department (2).
Camera activity around Carrollton, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Carrollton. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Carrollton
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 Carrollton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Carrollton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Carrollton
- Flock cameras debated as Carrollton votes and Dallas reviews – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
- Carrollton Pushes Back on Flock Cameras — What It Means
- Flock cameras spark debate in Carrollton amid privacy concerns – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Carrollton, TX
What you can do in Carrollton
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 Carrollton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).