Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sterling City, Texas
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Sterling City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Sterling City
The readers mapped around Sterling City break down as 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Simon Property Group. Every report here dates to Dec 2025.
- TX 158 — 2 readers
- US Highway 87 South — 1 reader
- Colorado Street — 1 reader
Sterling City in the Sterling County picture
Sterling County has 2 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #46 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 2.1% nationally. That’s across 1,389 residents and 2,298 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 91.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Simon Property Group (1).
What’s watching Sterling City
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 Sterling City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sterling City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Sterling City
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 Sterling City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).