Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hideaway, Texas
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Hideaway — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hideaway, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Hideaway itself.
The rest sit in Lindale (2).
6 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 Hideaway in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hideaway
The readers mapped around Hideaway break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Meadow Glen — 2 readers
- Smith County — 2 readers
- FM 849 — 2 readers
- Toll 49 — 1 reader
- County Road 46 — 1 reader
Hideaway in the Smith County picture
Smith County has 73 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,000 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 238,014 residents and 2,629 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 22.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
Camera activity around Hideaway, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hideaway. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Hideaway
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 Hideaway — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hideaway (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hideaway
What you can do in Hideaway
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.
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Cameras near Hideaway
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).