Flock & ALPR Cameras in Richardson, Texas
Volunteers have reported 174 automated license plate readers in and around Richardson — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 174 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Richardson, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 90 of them sit inside Richardson itself.
The rest sit in Dallas (82), Garland (2).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Dallas Police Department (2), Lowe's (1), Simon Property Group (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 7 new license plate readers just reported around Richardson, TX. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Richardson
Where the cameras are in Richardson
The readers mapped around Richardson break down as 165 Flock Safety, 5 Motorola Solutions, 1 Hinovision Solutions LLC (Linovision USA). Named operators in the reports: Dallas Police Department, Simon Property Group, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West Campbell Road — 10 readers
- Audelia Road — 10 readers
- Forest Lane — 9 readers
- University Trail — 7 readers
- North Central Expressway — 6 readers
- East Campbell Road — 6 readers
- Coit Road — 5 readers
- Greenville Avenue — 5 readers
- West Arapaho Road — 5 readers
- North Jupiter Road — 4 readers
- Walnut Street — 4 readers
- West Belt Line Road — 4 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Richardson — all on the live map above.
Richardson TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Richardson TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 81 other agencies.
Richardson in the Dallas County picture
Dallas County has 1,307 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #509 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 23.8% nationally. That’s across 2,603,816 residents and 6,164 road miles. By road density that is 0.21 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 148 traffic, 6 parking, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Dallas Police Department (2), Simon Property Group (1), Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around Richardson, last 30 days
24 newly reported in our hourly change log for Richardson. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Richardson
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 Richardson — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Richardson (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Richardson
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What you can do in Richardson
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 Richardson
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).