Flock & ALPR Cameras in Murphy, Texas
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Murphy — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Murphy, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Murphy itself.
The rest sit in Plano (2).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Murphy in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:20 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Murphy
The readers mapped around Murphy break down as 11 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East FM 544 — 5 readers
- East Plano Parkway — 2 readers
- Betsy Lane — 2 readers
- South Murphy Road — 1 reader
- Cherry Hill Lane — 1 reader
Murphy TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Murphy TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 26 other agencies.
Murphy 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 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (2).
Camera activity around Murphy, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Murphy. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching Murphy
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 Murphy — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Murphy (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Murphy
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 Murphy
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).