Flock & ALPR Cameras in Denton, Texas
Volunteers have reported 47 automated license plate readers in and around Denton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 6 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- 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 Denton
The readers mapped around Denton break down as 46 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Brinker Road — 10 readers
- South Western Boulevard — 5 readers
- East McKinney Street — 3 readers
- North Texas Boulevard — 3 readers
- Colorado Boulevard — 2 readers
- South Woodrow Lane — 2 readers
- South Loop 288 — 2 readers
- Avenue C — 2 readers
- West Hickory Street — 2 readers
- UNT Discovery Park — 2 readers
- Denton — 2 readers
- Duchess Drive — 2 readers
+ 9 more streets and roads mapped around Denton — all on the live map above.
Denton TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Denton TX PD runs 10 cameras of its own, has logged 153 plate-database searches, has captured 353,757 vehicle records. Its network connects to 430 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: 1st Judicial District, 47th District Attorney's Office TX, Abilene TX PD, Addison TX PD, Aldine ISD PD TX, Allen TX PD, TX - Alpine PD, TX - Alvin College Campus PD.
Denton in the Denton County picture
Denton County has 509 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #450 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21% nationally. That’s across 945,644 residents and 3,631 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 43 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around Denton, last 30 days
5 newly reported in our hourly change log for Denton. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Denton
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 Denton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Denton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Denton
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Denton, TX
- Justin considering ban of Flock and other license plate reading cameras - Cross Timbers Gazette | Southern Denton County | Flower Mound
- Lewisville PD says Flock cameras helped solve shooting investigation - Cross Timbers Gazette | Southern Denton County | Flower Mound
- Lawmakers added $1 to Texans' car insurance policies. That money paid for thousands of Flock cameras | Texas Legislature
What you can do in Denton
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 Denton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).