Flock & ALPR Cameras in Houston, Texas
Volunteers have reported 405 automated license plate readers in and around Houston — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 27 Neology, Inc. camera newly reported
- Sep 19 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 18 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Houston
The readers mapped around Houston break down as 389 Flock Safety, 6 Genetec, 2 Neology, Inc.. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, [Enter operator name]. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Lockwood Drive — 13 readers
- Washington Avenue — 13 readers
- Tidwell Road — 9 readers
- Harrisburg Boulevard — 9 readers
- Jensen Drive — 9 readers
- Homestead Road — 9 readers
- Scott Street — 8 readers
- Main Street — 7 readers
- Cavalcade Street — 7 readers
- Emancipation Avenue — 7 readers
- McGowen Street — 6 readers
- Yale Street — 6 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Houston — all on the live map above.
Houston TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Houston TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 141 other agencies.
Houston in the Harris County picture
Harris County has 3,445 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #241 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 11.2% nationally. That’s across 4,758,579 residents and 12,582 road miles. By road density that is 0.27 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 385 traffic, 9 parking, 1 public. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (22), [Enter operator name] (1).
Camera activity around Houston, last 30 days
9 newly reported in our hourly change log for Houston. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Houston
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 Houston — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Houston (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Houston
- Texas governor explains his stance on Flock cameras during stop in Houston
- Betting that Abbott will soon restore funding, some Texas agencies accept Flock's offer to keep cameras on – Houston Public Media
- Texas freezes installation of Flock cameras along state roads – Houston Public Media
- Gov. Abbott pauses Flock camera funding in Texas: What Houston-area agencies are doing
What you can do in Houston
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 Houston
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).