Flock & ALPR Cameras in Tatum, Texas
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Tatum — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Tatum, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Tatum itself.
The rest sit in Carthage (2), Beckville (1).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Tatum in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Tatum
The readers mapped around Tatum break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- US 79 — 2 readers
- TX 43 — 2 readers
- Johnson Street — 1 reader
- Fairplay Road — 1 reader
- FM 1716 — 1 reader
Tatum in the Panola County picture
Panola County has 9 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #734 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 22,624 residents and 1,554 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 56.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
Camera activity around Tatum, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Tatum. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Tatum
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 Tatum — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Tatum (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Tatum
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 Tatum
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).