Flock & ALPR Cameras in Elgin, Texas
Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around Elgin — 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 Elgin, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 23 of them sit inside Elgin itself.
The rest sit in Manor (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Elgin
The readers mapped around Elgin break down as 21 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West US Highway 290 — 4 readers
- County Line Road — 4 readers
- East US Highway 290 — 4 readers
- Saratoga Farms Boulevard — 2 readers
- North Avenue C — 2 readers
- US Highway 290 — 2 readers
- Bull Run Road — 1 reader
- Roy Rivers Road — 1 reader
- Lee Dildy Boulevard — 1 reader
- Farm-to-Market Road 1100 — 1 reader
- State Highway 95 North — 1 reader
- Red Town Road — 1 reader
Elgin TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Elgin TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 30 other agencies.
Elgin in the Bastrop County picture
Bastrop County has 55 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #452 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21.1% nationally. That’s across 102,370 residents and 2,640 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 28.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 21 traffic, 2 street.
Camera activity around Elgin, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Elgin. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Elgin
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 Elgin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Elgin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Elgin
- Elgin Police Department pausing use of FLOCK Safety cameras
- Elgin Police Department pauses use of Flock Safety cameras
- Elgin Police Department pausing use of city's FLOCK Safety cameras
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Elgin, TX
What you can do in Elgin
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 Elgin
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).