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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rowlett, Texas

Volunteers have reported 41 automated license plate readers in and around Rowlett — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 41 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Rowlett, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 29 of them sit inside Rowlett itself.

The rest sit in Garland (9), Dallas (3).

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

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41
Reported cameras nearby
#113
of 815 Texas cities tracked
0.2%
of Texas’s reported cameras
The local record — what was proposed here

Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.

Live camera map 41 reported cameras around Rowlett, 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 Rowlett
+0 this week +1 last 30 days
  • Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Rowlett

The readers mapped around Rowlett break down as 35 Flock Safety, 5 Axis Communications. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Rowlett Road — 6 readers
  • Lakeview Parkway — 4 readers
  • Dalrock Road — 4 readers
  • President George Bush Turnpike — 4 readers
  • East Miller Road — 3 readers
  • Chiesa Road — 3 readers
  • Merritt Road — 3 readers
  • President George Bush Highway — 2 readers
  • East Centerville Road — 2 readers
  • Roan Road — 1 reader
  • Wellington Avenue — 1 reader
  • Miller Road — 1 reader

+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Rowlett — all on the live map above.

Rowlett PD TX and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Rowlett PD TX appears in the sharing network with connections to 31 other agencies.

Rowlett 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 30 traffic.

Camera activity around Rowlett, last 30 days

3 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for Rowlett. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.

What’s watching Rowlett

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

The latest around Rowlett

What you can do in Rowlett

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 Rowlett

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