Flock & ALPR Cameras in Scissors, Texas
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Scissors — 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 Scissors, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Scissors itself.
The rest sit in Donna (2).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Customs and Border Protection (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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No new reports near Scissors in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 20:46 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Scissors
The readers mapped around Scissors break down as 1 of unrecorded make, 1 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Customs and Border Protection. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- FM 493 — 1 reader
- US 281 — 1 reader
Scissors 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 2 traffic. Operators named on the record: Customs and Border Protection (1).
What’s watching Scissors
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 Scissors — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Scissors (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Scissors
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 Scissors
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).