Flock & ALPR Cameras in Texarkana, Texas
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Texarkana — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 4 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Texarkana
The readers mapped around Texarkana break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jan 2026.
- New Boston Road — 2 readers
- College Drive — 1 reader
Texarkana TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Texarkana TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 51 other agencies.
Texarkana in the Bowie County picture
Bowie County has 21 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,273 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 92,321 residents and 2,064 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 43.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
What’s watching Texarkana
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 Texarkana — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Texarkana (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Texarkana
- Texarkana Texas Police Department sees boon in Flock system; public not so sure
- Texarkana, Texas police ran 305 license plate reader searches during a recent 30-day stretch. Two thirds of them reached beyond Texarkana to more than 1,000 law enforcement agencies across the country.
- Residents urge Texarkana, Texas council to cancel Flock camera contract
- Texarkana Texas Police Department rolls out new license plate readers to monitor traffic
What you can do in Texarkana
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 Texarkana
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).