Flock & ALPR Cameras in Northlake, Texas
Volunteers have reported 28 automated license plate readers in and around Northlake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 28 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Northlake, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 21 of them sit inside Northlake itself.
The rest sit in DISH (2).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Northlake PD (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
5 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Northlake in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Northlake
The readers mapped around Northlake break down as 28 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Northlake PD. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Briarwood Road — 2 readers
- Old Justin Road — 2 readers
- Cleveland Gibbs Road — 2 readers
- Harvest Way — 2 readers
- Dakota Drive — 2 readers
- Eakin Cemetery Road — 2 readers
- 8th Street — 1 reader
- Crockett Lane — 1 reader
- Prairie View Drive — 1 reader
- Elm Place — 1 reader
- Stardust Lane — 1 reader
- Canyon Ridge Drive — 1 reader
+ 10 more streets and roads mapped around Northlake — all on the live map above.
Northlake TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Northlake TX PD runs 43 cameras of its own, has logged 76 plate-database searches, has captured 188,083 vehicle records. Its network connects to 26 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Northlake in the Denton County picture
Denton County has 509 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #450 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21% nationally. That’s across 945,644 residents and 3,631 road miles. By road density that is 0.14 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 28 traffic. Operators named on the record: Northlake PD (2).
What’s watching Northlake
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 Northlake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Northlake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Northlake
What you can do in Northlake
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.
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Cameras near Northlake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).