Flock & ALPR Cameras in Friendswood, Texas
Volunteers have reported 96 automated license plate readers in and around Friendswood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 96 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Friendswood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 29 of them sit inside Friendswood itself.
The rest sit in Houston (23), Pearland (19), League City (4).
6 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (6). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
21 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 1 Rekor camera newly reported
- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 27 Flock Safety 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 Friendswood
The readers mapped around Friendswood break down as 85 Flock Safety, 1 FLOCK SAFETY, 1 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Blackhawk Boulevard — 9 readers
- Scarsdale Boulevard — 9 readers
- Dixie Farm Road — 7 readers
- Broadway Street — 6 readers
- Beamer Road — 6 readers
- West Bay Area Boulevard — 4 readers
- West El Dorado Boulevard — 3 readers
- Friendswood Lake Boulevard — 3 readers
- North Friendswood Drive — 2 readers
- Friendswood Link Road — 2 readers
- Stone Creek Terrace — 2 readers
- West Edgewood Drive — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Friendswood — all on the live map above.
Friendswood TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Friendswood TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 131 other agencies.
Friendswood in the Galveston County picture
Galveston County has 210 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #384 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 17.9% nationally. That’s across 354,721 residents and 2,086 road miles. By road density that is 0.10 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 63 traffic, 3 parking. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (6).
Camera activity around Friendswood, last 30 days
17 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for Friendswood. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Friendswood
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 Friendswood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Friendswood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Friendswood
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Friendswood, TX
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Friendswood, TX
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Friendswood, TX
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Friendswood, TX
What you can do in Friendswood
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 Friendswood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).