Flock & ALPR Cameras in Jamaica Beach, Texas
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Jamaica Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Jamaica Beach, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Jamaica Beach itself.
The rest sit in Galveston (13).
3 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 Jamaica Beach in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Jamaica Beach
The readers mapped around Jamaica Beach break down as 16 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Cove Lane — 2 readers
- Buccaneer Boulevard — 2 readers
- Jetty Drive — 1 reader
- San Luis Pass Road — 1 reader
- Kahala Drive — 1 reader
- Swashbuckle — 1 reader
- 12 Mile Road — 1 reader
- Eckert Drive — 1 reader
- Foremast Drive — 1 reader
- Palm Street — 1 reader
- China Clipper Drive — 1 reader
- Marina Boulevard — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Jamaica Beach — all on the live map above.
Jamaica Beach in the Galveston County picture
Galveston County has 210 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #384 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 17.9% nationally. That’s across 354,721 residents and 2,086 road miles. By road density that is 0.10 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic.
Camera activity around Jamaica Beach, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Jamaica Beach. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Jamaica Beach
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 Jamaica Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Jamaica Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Jamaica Beach
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 Jamaica Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).