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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ricardo, Texas

Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Ricardo — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ricardo, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Ricardo itself.

The rest sit in Kingsville (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#708
of 815 Texas cities tracked
0.1%
of Texas’s reported cameras
Live camera map 2 reported cameras around Ricardo, 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 Ricardo

No new reports near Ricardo in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:52 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Ricardo

The readers mapped around Ricardo break down as 2 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jul 2026.

  • South 6th Street — 1 reader
  • West County Road 2140 — 1 reader

Ricardo in the Kleberg County picture

Kleberg County has 1 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #2,080 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 30,629 residents and 1,728 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 96% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.

What’s watching Ricardo

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

The latest around Ricardo

What you can do in Ricardo

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 Ricardo

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