Flock & ALPR Cameras in Groves, Texas
Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around Groves — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 25 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Groves, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Groves itself.
The rest sit in Port Arthur (9), Port Neches (2).
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 Groves in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Groves
The readers mapped around Groves break down as 20 Flock Safety, 5 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Twin City Highway — 8 readers
- 39th Street — 3 readers
- Main Avenue — 3 readers
- Pure Atlantic Road — 2 readers
- Gulfway Drive — 2 readers
- East Port Neches Avenue — 1 reader
- Monroe Boulevard — 1 reader
- 32nd Street — 1 reader
- East Parkway Street — 1 reader
- West Parkway Street — 1 reader
- Spur 136 — 1 reader
- Hogaboom Road — 1 reader
TX - Groves PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, TX - Groves PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 29 other agencies.
Groves in the Jefferson County picture
Jefferson County has 174 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #271 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.6% nationally. That’s across 253,939 residents and 2,033 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 23 traffic.
Camera activity around Groves, last 30 days
4 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Groves. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching Groves
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 Groves — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Groves (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Groves
What you can do in Groves
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 Groves
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).