Flock & ALPR Cameras in San Juan, Texas
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around San Juan — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of San Juan, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside San Juan itself.
The rest sit in Pharr (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 30 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 Juan
The readers mapped around San Juan break down as 3 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South I Road — 3 readers
- East Center Avenue — 1 reader
- East Ridge Road — 1 reader
San Juan in the Hidalgo County picture
Hidalgo County has 210 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,229 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 880,921 residents and 4,698 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 13.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
Camera activity around San Juan, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for San Juan. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching San Juan
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 Juan — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to San Juan (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around San Juan
- San Juan Capistrano Considers License Plate Cameras for Downtown Parking Enforcement
- 2 new license plate readers reported around San Juan, TX
- House OKs regulations on license plate cameras
- Lawmakers move to regulate license plate cameras | The Journal of the San Juan Islands
What you can do in San Juan
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 Juan
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).