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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Garland, Texas

Volunteers have reported 71 automated license plate readers in and around Garland — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 71 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Garland, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 44 of them sit inside Garland itself.

The rest sit in Dallas (24), Mesquite (2), Richardson (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#58
of 815 Texas cities tracked
0.4%
of Texas’s reported cameras
Live camera map 71 reported cameras around Garland, 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 Garland

No new reports near Garland in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 10:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Garland

The readers mapped around Garland break down as 71 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • Jupiter Road — 4 readers
  • East Northwest Highway — 4 readers
  • West Buckingham Road — 4 readers
  • North Jupiter Road — 4 readers
  • South Shiloh Road — 3 readers
  • West Kingsley Road — 3 readers
  • La Prada Drive — 2 readers
  • North Garland Avenue — 2 readers
  • Broadway Boulevard — 2 readers
  • East Centerville Road — 2 readers
  • Ferguson Road — 2 readers
  • Shiloh Road — 2 readers

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

Garland TX PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Garland TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 30 other agencies.

Garland 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 54 traffic, 3 parking.

Camera activity around Garland, last 30 days

3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Garland. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.

What’s watching Garland

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

The latest around Garland

What you can do in Garland

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 Garland

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