Flock & ALPR Cameras in Palacios, Texas
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Palacios — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Palacios, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Palacios itself.
The rest sit in Blessing (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Palacios in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:57 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Palacios
The readers mapped around Palacios break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- TX 35 — 2 readers
- County Road 476 — 1 reader
Palacios in the Matagorda County picture
Matagorda County has 25 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #269 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.5% nationally. That’s across 36,274 residents and 2,644 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 44.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
Camera activity around Palacios, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Palacios. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.
What’s watching Palacios
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 Palacios — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Palacios (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Palacios
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 Palacios
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).