Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Lake Hills, Texas
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around West Lake Hills — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Lake Hills, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside West Lake Hills itself.
The rest sit in Austin (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near West Lake Hills in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in West Lake Hills
The readers mapped around West Lake Hills break down as 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Redbud Trail — 3 readers
- Courtyard Drive — 2 readers
- Forest View Drive — 1 reader
- Scenic Drive — 1 reader
- West 35th Street — 1 reader
- Westlake Drive — 1 reader
- Buckeye Trail — 1 reader
West Lake Hills PD TX and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, West Lake Hills PD TX appears in the sharing network with connections to 2 other agencies.
West Lake Hills in the Travis County picture
Travis County has 412 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #978 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,307,625 residents and 4,006 road miles. By road density that is 0.10 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
Camera activity around West Lake Hills, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for West Lake Hills. Latest change logged Aug 15, 2026.
What’s watching West Lake Hills
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 Lake Hills — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Lake Hills (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around West Lake Hills
- West Lake Hills Police Department to utilize license plate readers
- West Lake Hills PD to utilize license plate readers
- West Lake Hills to install license plate readers to improve public safety | Lake Travis - Westlake
What you can do in West Lake Hills
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 West Lake Hills
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).