Flock & ALPR Cameras in Port Lavaca, Texas
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Port Lavaca — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Port Lavaca, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Port Lavaca itself.
The rest sit in Point Comfort (2).
2 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 Port Lavaca in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 24, 08:23 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Port Lavaca
The readers mapped around Port Lavaca break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- State Highway 35 — 3 readers
- TX 238 — 1 reader
- US 87 — 1 reader
Port Lavaca in the Calhoun County picture
Calhoun County has 6 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,017 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 19,921 residents and 676 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 46.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
What’s watching Port Lavaca
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 Port Lavaca — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Port Lavaca (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Port Lavaca
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 Port Lavaca
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).