Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hempstead, Texas
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Hempstead — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hempstead, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Hempstead itself.
The rest sit in Chappell Hill (1).
8 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 Hempstead in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hempstead
The readers mapped around Hempstead break down as 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- TX 6 — 4 readers
- TX 159 — 2 readers
- FM 1488 — 1 reader
- Farm-to-Market Road 1371 — 1 reader
- US Highway 290 — 1 reader
- US Highway 290 East — 1 reader
Hempstead in the Waller County picture
Waller County has 32 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #451 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21.1% nationally. That’s across 59,455 residents and 978 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 19.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic.
Camera activity around Hempstead, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hempstead. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Hempstead
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 Hempstead — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hempstead (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Hempstead
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 Hempstead
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).