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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Farmers Branch, Texas

Volunteers have reported 94 automated license plate readers in and around Farmers Branch — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 95 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Farmers Branch, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 29 of them sit inside Farmers Branch itself.

The rest sit in Dallas (56), Irving (9), Carrollton (1).

2 of them name an operator in the record: Dallas Police Department (1), Farmers Branch Police Department (1). 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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of Texas’s reported cameras
Live camera map 94 reported cameras around Farmers Branch, 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 Farmers Branch
+0 this week +1 last 30 days
  • Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Farmers Branch

The readers mapped around Farmers Branch break down as 95 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Dallas Police Department, Farmers Branch Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • Royal Lane — 13 readers
  • Valley View Lane — 10 readers
  • North MacArthur Boulevard — 6 readers
  • Webb Chapel Road — 4 readers
  • Forest Lane — 4 readers
  • Marsh Lane — 4 readers
  • Harry Hines Boulevard — 4 readers
  • Denton Drive — 4 readers
  • North Walton Walker Boulevard — 3 readers
  • Manana Drive — 3 readers
  • Luna Road — 2 readers
  • Josey Lane — 2 readers

+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Farmers Branch — all on the live map above.

Farmers Branch TX PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Farmers Branch TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 34 other agencies.

Farmers Branch 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 92 traffic. Operators named on the record: Dallas Police Department (1), Farmers Branch Police Department (1).

Camera activity around Farmers Branch, last 30 days

8 newly reported in our hourly change log for Farmers Branch. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.

What’s watching Farmers Branch

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

The latest around Farmers Branch

What you can do in Farmers Branch

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 Farmers Branch

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