Flock & ALPR Cameras in Katy, Texas
Volunteers have reported 201 automated license plate readers in and around Katy — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 201 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Katy, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 68 of them sit inside Katy itself.
The rest sit in Houston (1).
35 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (31), Williamsburg Settlement Maintenance Association (4). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
132 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 23 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 23 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Katy
The readers mapped around Katy break down as 161 Flock Safety, 36 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, Williamsburg Settlement Maintenance Association. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Kingsland Boulevard — 9 readers
- Elyson Boulevard — 6 readers
- Pin Oak Road — 5 readers
- Katy Freeway Frontage Road — 5 readers
- Charlton House Lane — 5 readers
- New Hope Lane — 3 readers
- Cane Island Parkway — 3 readers
- Morrison Boulevard — 3 readers
- Mercantile Parkway — 3 readers
- Highway Boulevard — 3 readers
- Elyson Falls Drive — 3 readers
- Tamarron Crossing — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Katy — all on the live map above.
Katy TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Katy TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 8 other agencies.
Katy in the Fort Bend County picture
Fort Bend County has 581 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #277 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.9% nationally. That’s across 859,721 residents and 3,877 road miles. By road density that is 0.15 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 144 traffic, 31 street, 2 entrance. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (31), Williamsburg Settlement Maintenance Association (4).
Camera activity around Katy, last 30 days
13 newly reported in our hourly change log for Katy. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching Katy
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 Katy — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Katy (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Katy
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Katy, TX
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Katy, TX
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Katy, TX
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Katy, TX
What you can do in Katy
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 Katy
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).