Flock & ALPR Cameras in Iowa Colony, Texas
Volunteers have reported 38 automated license plate readers in and around Iowa Colony — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 38 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Iowa Colony, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Iowa Colony itself.
The rest sit in Meridiana (12), Manvel (8), Pearland (2).
13 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 Iowa Colony in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Iowa Colony
The readers mapped around Iowa Colony break down as 38 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Crystal View Drive — 4 readers
- Sterling Gate Drive — 2 readers
- Sierra Vista Boulevard — 2 readers
- Ames Boulevard — 2 readers
- Sterling Lakes Drive — 2 readers
- Nolan Ryan Expressway — 2 readers
- Juliff-Manvel Road — 2 readers
- Karsten Boulevard — 2 readers
- Croix Parkway — 2 readers
- Orchard Park Lane — 2 readers
- Pomona Parkway — 2 readers
- Bailey Avenue — 1 reader
+ 13 more streets and roads mapped around Iowa Colony — all on the live map above.
Iowa Colony TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Iowa Colony TX PD runs 27 cameras of its own, has logged 27 plate-database searches, has captured 109,785 vehicle records. Its network connects to 668 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: 1st Judicial District, 47th District Attorney's Office TX, Abilene TX PD, Addison TX PD, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA), Aldine ISD PD TX, Allen TX PD, AR - Alma PD.
Iowa Colony in the Brazoria County picture
Brazoria County has 190 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #517 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 24.1% nationally. That’s across 381,650 residents and 4,663 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 33 traffic.
Camera activity around Iowa Colony, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Iowa Colony. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Iowa Colony
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 Iowa Colony — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Iowa Colony (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Iowa Colony
What you can do in Iowa Colony
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 Iowa Colony
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).