Flock & ALPR Cameras in Helotes, Texas
Volunteers have reported 39 automated license plate readers in and around Helotes — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 39 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Helotes, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Helotes itself.
The rest sit in San Antonio (32).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Helotes
The readers mapped around Helotes break down as 37 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- UTSA Boulevard — 8 readers
- Brackenridge Avenue — 5 readers
- Bandera Road — 4 readers
- Stonecroft — 3 readers
- North Loop 1604 West — 3 readers
- West Loop 1604 North — 3 readers
- Barshop Boulevard — 2 readers
- Paynes Gray — 2 readers
- Ranch Parkway — 2 readers
- Quincy Lee Drive — 1 reader
- Shaenfield Road — 1 reader
- Wildstone Place — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Helotes — all on the live map above.
Helotes in the Bexar County picture
Bexar County has 420 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,359 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 2,037,344 residents and 6,570 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 35 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
What’s watching Helotes
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 Helotes — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Helotes (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Helotes
What you can do in Helotes
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 Helotes
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).