Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sour Lake, Texas
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Sour Lake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Sour Lake in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Sour Lake
The readers mapped around Sour Lake break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- State Highway 326 — 3 readers
- 5th Street — 2 readers
- TX 326 — 1 reader
- TX 105 — 1 reader
Sour Lake TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Sour Lake TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 33 other agencies.
Sour Lake in the Hardin County picture
Hardin County has 25 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #643 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 57,126 residents and 2,358 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 42.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
What’s watching Sour Lake
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 Sour Lake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sour Lake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Sour Lake
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 Sour Lake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).