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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Central Gardens, Texas

Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Central Gardens — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Central Gardens, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Central Gardens itself.

The rest sit in Beaumont (2), Nederland (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Live camera map 4 reported cameras around Central Gardens, Texas
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Central Gardens

No new reports near Central Gardens in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:17 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Central Gardens

The readers mapped around Central Gardens break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.

  • US 69;US 96;US 287 — 2 readers
  • North Twin City Highway — 1 reader

Central Gardens in the Jefferson County picture

Jefferson County has 174 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #271 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.6% nationally. That’s across 253,939 residents and 2,033 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.8% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.

What’s watching Central Gardens

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 Central Gardens — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Central Gardens (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Central Gardens

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.

Cameras near Central Gardens

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).