Flock & ALPR Cameras in DeSoto, Texas
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around DeSoto — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of DeSoto, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside DeSoto itself.
The rest sit in Lancaster (4), Dallas (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near DeSoto in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 07:12 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in DeSoto
The readers mapped around DeSoto break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Muttick Lane — 2 readers
- South Polk Street — 1 reader
- East Centre Park Boulevard — 1 reader
- North Interstate 35E — 1 reader
- East Pleasant Run Road — 1 reader
- North Hampton Road — 1 reader
- West Belt Line Road — 1 reader
DeSoto TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, DeSoto TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 30 other agencies.
DeSoto 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 7 traffic.
What’s watching DeSoto
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 DeSoto — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to DeSoto (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around DeSoto
- "It helps us audit ourselves": DeSoto police launch transparency website for Flock cameras
- DeSoto launches portal to ease fears over Flock camera usage
- Cities explain use of Flock cameras in DeSoto County
- A look inside DeSoto's $300K investment into gunshot detection technology. Is it paying off?
What you can do in DeSoto
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 DeSoto
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).