Flock & ALPR Cameras in The Colony, Texas
Volunteers have reported 107 automated license plate readers in and around The Colony — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 107 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of The Colony, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 39 of them sit inside The Colony itself.
The rest sit in Plano (45), Lewisville (11), Carrollton (8), Frisco (4).
31 of them name an operator in the record: The Colony Police Department (13), The Colony PD (11), Plano Police Department (7). 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 30 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in The Colony
The readers mapped around The Colony break down as 95 Flock Safety, 8 Motorola Solutions, 3 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: The Colony Police Department, The Colony PD, Plano Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Dallas Parkway — 16 readers
- West Spring Creek Parkway — 6 readers
- State Highway 121 — 6 readers
- Plano Parkway — 5 readers
- Grandscape Boulevard — 5 readers
- Destination Drive — 5 readers
- Legacy Drive — 4 readers
- Nebraska Furniture Mart Drive — 3 readers
- Marina Vista Drive — 3 readers
- Paige Road — 3 readers
- Windhaven Parkway — 3 readers
- West Parker Road — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around The Colony — all on the live map above.
The Colony TX PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, The Colony TX PD runs 23 cameras of its own, has logged 263 plate-database searches, has captured 646,731 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,138 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: 1st Judicial District, 47th District Attorney's Office TX, Abilene TX PD, Ada County ID SO, Ada OK PD, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO, Adams County WA SO.
The Colony in the Denton County picture
Denton County has 509 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #450 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21% nationally. That’s across 945,644 residents and 3,631 road miles. By road density that is 0.14 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 78 traffic, 1 parking_entrance, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: The Colony Police Department (13), The Colony PD (11), Plano Police Department (7).
Camera activity around The Colony, last 30 days
9 newly reported in our hourly change log for The Colony. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching The Colony
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 The Colony — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to The Colony (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around The Colony
- 2 new license plate readers reported around The Colony, TX
- 3 new license plate readers reported around The Colony, TX
- 2 new license plate readers reported around The Colony, TX
- 4 new license plate readers reported around The Colony, TX
What you can do in The Colony
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 The Colony
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).