Flock & ALPR Cameras in McKinney, Texas
Volunteers have reported 27 automated license plate readers in and around McKinney — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 27 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of McKinney, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 25 of them sit inside McKinney itself.
The rest sit in New Hope (1).
9 of them name an operator in the record: Baylor Scott & White Health (8), Lowe's (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near McKinney in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in McKinney
The readers mapped around McKinney break down as 25 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Baylor Scott & White Health, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West University Drive — 6 readers
- Lake Forest Drive — 4 readers
- Taylor Burk Drive — 4 readers
- North Central Expressway — 3 readers
- North Redbud Boulevard — 2 readers
- County Road 331 — 2 readers
- Virginia Parkway — 2 readers
- East University Drive — 1 reader
- North McDonald Street — 1 reader
- Wilmeth Road — 1 reader
- West Louisiana Street — 1 reader
McKinney TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, McKinney TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 136 other agencies.
McKinney in the Collin County picture
Collin County has 575 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #490 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 22.9% nationally. That’s across 1,116,601 residents and 4,279 road miles. By road density that is 0.13 cameras per road mile, in the top 3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic. Operators named on the record: Baylor Scott & White Health (8), Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around McKinney, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for McKinney. Latest change logged Aug 14, 2026.
What’s watching McKinney
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 McKinney — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to McKinney (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around McKinney
- McKinney mosque approval sparks resident outrage over Sharia law concerns
- 3 new license plate readers reported around McKinney, TX
- McKinney City Council approves license plate readers
- McKinney to implement citywide license plate camera system
What you can do in McKinney
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 McKinney
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).