Flock & ALPR Cameras in Red Oak, Texas
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Red Oak — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Red Oak, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Red Oak itself.
The rest sit in Waxahachie (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Red Oak in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 08:31 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Red Oak
The readers mapped around Red Oak break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West Red Oak Road — 3 readers
- Pierce Road — 1 reader
- Sourth Ryan Drive — 1 reader
- Harmony Way — 1 reader
- I 35E — 1 reader
- Red Oak — 1 reader
- FM 813 — 1 reader
Red Oak PD TX and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Red Oak PD TX appears in the sharing network with connections to 31 other agencies.
Red Oak 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 9 traffic.
Camera activity around Red Oak, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Red Oak. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Red Oak
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 Red Oak — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Red Oak (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Red Oak
What you can do in Red Oak
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 Red Oak
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).