Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Columbia, Texas
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around West Columbia — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near West Columbia in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:24 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in West Columbia
The readers mapped around West Columbia break down as 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Jimmy Phillips Boulevard — 2 readers
- TX 35 Business — 2 readers
- North 13th Street — 1 reader
- North 17th Street — 1 reader
- South 17th Street — 1 reader
- West Brazos Avenue — 1 reader
- Loggins Drive — 1 reader
- West Jackson Street — 1 reader
West Columbia PD TX and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, West Columbia PD TX appears in the sharing network with connections to 23 other agencies.
West Columbia in the Brazoria County picture
Brazoria County has 190 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #517 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 24.1% nationally. That’s across 381,650 residents and 4,663 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic.
Camera activity around West Columbia, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for West Columbia. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.
What’s watching West Columbia
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 West Columbia — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Columbia (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around West Columbia
What you can do in West Columbia
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.
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Cameras near West Columbia
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).