Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Houston, Texas
Volunteers have reported 124 automated license plate readers in and around South Houston — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 124 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Houston, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside South Houston itself.
The rest sit in Houston (112), Pasadena (8).
31 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (28), The Home Depot (3). 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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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 19 new license plate readers just reported around South Houston, TX. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #SouthHouston
📷 6 new license plate readers just reported around South Houston, TX. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #SouthHouston
Where the cameras are in South Houston
The readers mapped around South Houston break down as 103 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Broadway Street — 7 readers
- Bellfort Street — 6 readers
- Woodridge Drive — 6 readers
- Telephone Road — 6 readers
- Airport Boulevard — 6 readers
- Gulf Freeway Frontage Road — 6 readers
- Monroe Road — 5 readers
- Almeda-Genoa Road — 3 readers
- Gulf Point Drive — 3 readers
- South Shaver Street — 3 readers
- Reveille Street — 2 readers
- Kleckley Drive — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around South Houston — all on the live map above.
South Houston TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, South Houston TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 26 other agencies.
South Houston in the Harris County picture
Harris County has 3,445 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #241 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 11.2% nationally. That’s across 4,758,579 residents and 12,582 road miles. By road density that is 0.27 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 100 traffic, 1 area, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (28), The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around South Houston, last 30 days
11 newly reported in our hourly change log for South Houston. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching South Houston
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 South Houston — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Houston (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around South Houston
- 19 new license plate readers reported around South Houston, TX
- 5 license plate readers reported removed near South Houston, TX
- 6 new license plate readers reported around South Houston, TX
- 4 new license plate readers reported around South Houston, TX
What you can do in South Houston
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 South Houston
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).