Flock & ALPR Cameras in San Benito, Texas
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around San Benito — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in San Benito
The readers mapped around San Benito break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- 15th Street — 2 readers
- South Oscar Williams Road — 2 readers
- South Sam Houston Boulevard — 1 reader
- San Jose Ranch Road — 1 reader
- Helen Moore Road — 1 reader
- Business 77 — 1 reader
San Benito TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, San Benito TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 22 other agencies.
San Benito in the Cameron County picture
Cameron County has 38 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,812 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 423,192 residents and 2,800 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 37% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
What’s watching San Benito
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 San Benito — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to San Benito (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around San Benito
- 3 new license plate readers reported around San Benito, TX
- San Benito police address concerns about new license plate reader technology
What you can do in San Benito
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 San Benito
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).