Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ovilla, Texas
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Ovilla — 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 Ovilla, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Ovilla itself.
The rest sit in Cedar Hill (4), Midlothian (1), Waxahachie (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Ovilla Police Department (1). 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 Ovilla in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:02 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Ovilla
The readers mapped around Ovilla break down as 12 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Ovilla Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- Ranch View Drive — 2 readers
- Bryson Manor Drive — 2 readers
- South Cockrell Hill Road — 1 reader
- Nob Hill Lane — 1 reader
- Ashburne Glen Lane — 1 reader
- Judy Drive — 1 reader
- Spring Hill Drive — 1 reader
- FM 664 — 1 reader
- Oak Park Lane — 1 reader
- North Walnut Grove Road — 1 reader
Ovilla TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Ovilla TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 30 other agencies.
Ovilla in the Ellis County picture
Ellis County has 76 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #812 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 203,927 residents and 2,308 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 19.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Ovilla Police Department (1).
What’s watching Ovilla
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 Ovilla — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ovilla (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Ovilla
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 Ovilla
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).