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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Prairie View, Texas

Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Prairie View — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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17
Reported cameras nearby
#228
of 815 Texas cities tracked
0.1%
of Texas’s reported cameras
Live camera map 17 reported cameras around Prairie View, Texas
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Prairie View

No new reports near Prairie View in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:20 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Prairie View

The readers mapped around Prairie View break down as 17 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • University Drive — 3 readers
  • E. E. O'Bannion Street — 2 readers
  • E. M. Norris Street — 2 readers
  • L. W. Minor Street — 2 readers
  • US 290;TX 6 — 1 reader
  • Bill Daniel Road — 1 reader
  • R. B. Evans Street — 1 reader
  • T. R. Solomon Street — 1 reader
  • Farm-to-Market Road 362 — 1 reader
  • Sandra Bland Parkway — 1 reader
  • FM 1488 — 1 reader
  • FM 362;FM 1488 — 1 reader

Prairie View in the Waller County picture

Waller County has 32 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #451 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21.1% nationally. That’s across 59,455 residents and 978 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 19.4% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic.

Camera activity around Prairie View, last 30 days

2 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Prairie View. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.

What’s watching Prairie View

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 Prairie View — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Prairie View (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Prairie View

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.

Cameras near Prairie View

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).