Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sparks, Texas
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Sparks — 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 Sparks, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Sparks itself.
The rest sit in El Paso (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Sparks
The readers mapped around Sparks break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Zaragoza Road — 2 readers
Sparks in the El Paso County picture
El Paso County has 170 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,391 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 866,275 residents and 3,261 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 11.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
Camera activity around Sparks, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Sparks. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching Sparks
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 Sparks — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sparks (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sparks
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What you can do in Sparks
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 Sparks
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).