Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lancaster, Texas
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Lancaster — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lancaster, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 13 of them sit inside Lancaster itself.
The rest sit in Hutchins (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Lancaster in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lancaster
The readers mapped around Lancaster break down as 14 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Pleasant Run Road — 6 readers
- West Main Street — 1 reader
- North Bluegrove Road — 1 reader
- South Dallas Avenue — 1 reader
- Telephone Road — 1 reader
- North Houston School Road — 1 reader
- West Belt Line Road — 1 reader
- West Wintergreen Road — 1 reader
- Lancaster Hutchins Road — 1 reader
Lancaster TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lancaster TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 27 other agencies.
Lancaster in the Dallas County picture
Dallas County has 1,307 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #509 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 23.8% nationally. That’s across 2,603,816 residents and 6,164 road miles. By road density that is 0.21 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic.
Camera activity around Lancaster, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lancaster. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Lancaster
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 Lancaster — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lancaster (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Lancaster
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 Lancaster
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).