Flock & ALPR Cameras in Magnolia, Texas
Volunteers have reported 34 automated license plate readers in and around Magnolia — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Magnolia is on the record here. Magnolia Police Chief Kyle Montgomery told KPRC 2 the department will not renew its Flock contract when it expires in October 2026. He cited privacy, budget, and limited use. The city does not own the cameras; Flock is to retrieve them after the contract ends. He said the department had no known local misuse. Distinct from Harris County's still-active renewal.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 39 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Magnolia, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Magnolia itself.
The rest sit in Plantersville (3), Montgomery (1).
24 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 1 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Magnolia
The readers mapped around Magnolia break down as 38 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Magnolia — 6 readers
- FM 1774 — 4 readers
- Farm-to-Market Road 1488 — 3 readers
- Nichols Sawmill Road — 2 readers
- High Meadow Estates Drive — 2 readers
- Aggie Expressway — 2 readers
- Jackson Road — 2 readers
- Montgomery County — 2 readers
- Keenan Cutoff Road — 2 readers
- Butler Ranch Road — 2 readers
- High Meadow West Drive — 2 readers
- Thomas Lane — 1 reader
+ 8 more streets and roads mapped around Magnolia — all on the live map above.
Magnolia PD TX and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Magnolia PD TX appears in the sharing network with connections to 29 other agencies.
Magnolia in the Montgomery County picture
Montgomery County has 273 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #686 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 654,722 residents and 3,757 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 7.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 38 traffic.
Camera activity around Magnolia, last 30 days
5 newly reported in our hourly change log for Magnolia. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Magnolia
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 Magnolia — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Magnolia (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Magnolia
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Magnolia, TX
- Magnolia, TX: Contract Canceled
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Magnolia, TX
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Magnolia, TX
What you can do in Magnolia
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 Magnolia
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).