Flock & ALPR Cameras in Melissa, Texas
Volunteers have reported 71 automated license plate readers in and around Melissa — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 71 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Melissa, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 54 of them sit inside Melissa itself.
The rest sit in McKinney (4), Anna (2).
11 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Melissa
The readers mapped around Melissa break down as 65 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Central Expressway — 9 readers
- Collin County Outer Loop — 6 readers
- Milrany Lane — 6 readers
- Sam Rayburn Highway — 6 readers
- Throckmorton Road — 5 readers
- East Melissa Road — 5 readers
- Fannin Road — 3 readers
- Bucees Boulevard — 3 readers
- County Road 277 — 2 readers
- Miller Road — 2 readers
- Melissa Road — 2 readers
- McKinney Street — 2 readers
+ 13 more streets and roads mapped around Melissa — all on the live map above.
Melissa TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Melissa TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 45 other agencies.
Melissa 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 64 traffic, 1 traffc.
Camera activity around Melissa, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Melissa. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Melissa
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 Melissa — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Melissa (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Melissa
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Melissa, TX
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Melissa, TX
What you can do in Melissa
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 Melissa
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).