Flock & ALPR Cameras in Gardendale, Texas
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Gardendale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Gardendale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Gardendale itself.
The rest sit in Midland (4), Black Gold District (3), Odessa (2).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Odessa Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Gardendale in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Gardendale
The readers mapped around Gardendale break down as 13 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Odessa Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Wire Line Road — 3 readers
- Energy Drive — 2 readers
- US 385 — 2 readers
- East 87th Street — 1 reader
- Energy Road — 1 reader
- West Cottonwood Road — 1 reader
- East Cottonwood Road — 1 reader
- Midland — 1 reader
- FM 554 — 1 reader
Gardendale in the Ector County picture
Ector County has 75 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #608 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 163,206 residents and 1,707 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic. Operators named on the record: Odessa Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Gardendale, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Gardendale. Latest change logged Aug 21, 2026.
What’s watching Gardendale
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 Gardendale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Gardendale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Gardendale
What you can do in Gardendale
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 Gardendale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).