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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mentone, Texas

Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Mentone — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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Live camera map 3 reported cameras around Mentone, Texas

Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →

Camera Watch Recently reported near Mentone

No new reports near Mentone in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:15 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Mentone

The readers mapped around Mentone break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in May 2026.

US Highway 285 — 1 reader
County Road 200 — 1 reader
County Road 160 — 1 reader

Mentone in the Loving County picture

Loving County has 1 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #2 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 0% nationally. That’s across 54 residents and 650 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 84.1% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.

What’s watching Mentone

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 Mentone — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mentone (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Mentone

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 Mentone

Pecos (10) Wink (7) Kermit (5) Monahans (17)

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).