Atlas · State

Texas

What is documented about automated license plate surveillance in Texas — and what is still an open question.

Are automated license plate readers used in Texas?

Yes. Volunteers have recorded 12,190 automated license plate reader camera locations in Texas, across 194 counties. That is a floor, not an inventory — it counts what someone has mapped, not what exists.

Camera data retrieved Aug 15, 2026 · Most recent record Aug 11, 2026

12,190 Camera coordinates 10.3% of the 118,623 we hold nationally. Community-reported, not field-verified by us.
194 Counties with a mapped camera Assigned geometrically from Census county boundaries. A county with no entry has no mapped camera, which is not the same as none.
2 Documented decisions 1 ended, declined, or suspended · 1 adopted, renewed, or expanded.
0 Full dossiers Places researched down to retention, sharing, warrant standard, and audit policy — including the fields that come back unknown.

Known ALPR locations

Coverage incomplete

  • Camera coordinate
  • Jurisdiction record — no camera coordinates held
  • Program ended, declined, or prohibited

12,190 mapped camera coordinates · 42 jurisdiction records · 50 of 50 states have data. Camera coordinates © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Boundaries and roads: US Census, public domain. Roads are drawn for orientation only — a camera near a road is not a claim about which road it watches.

Pinned to Texas. Open the national Atlas to compare with neighbouring states.

Who supplies the cameras

Vendor attribution as recorded by OpenStreetMap contributors. Where a contributor did not identify the vendor the record reads “Unspecified” — that is an unrecorded fact, not a vendorless camera.

Vendor Mapped cameras Share
Flock Safety 10,986 90.1%
Unspecified 805 6.6%
Motorola Solutions 154 1.3%
Genetec 113 0.9%
Axis Communications 68 0.6%
Leonardo/Elsag 53 0.4%
Rekor 5 0.0%
Neology 4 0.0%
LiveView Technologies 2 0.0%

Where in Texas

12,158 mapped cameras assigned to the county containing them. The 182 remaining counties with at least one mapped camera are in the open data.

  • Harris 3,376
  • Dallas 1,212
  • Tarrant 850
  • Collin 557
  • Fort Bend 555
  • Denton 449
  • Travis 399
  • Bexar 396
  • Montgomery 251
  • Williamson 229
  • Galveston 198
  • Brazoria 177

What governments here have decided

Every decision we hold for Texas, most recent first. The Decision Record exists because deployment databases record arrivals and not reversals.

Jurisdiction Decision Date Vendor Sourcing
El Paso Renewed Mar 3, 2026 Flock Safety Reported
Austin Ended Jun 3, 2025 Flock Safety; Axon Official agency

Signal

No Signal story yet names Texas. That is a gap in our coverage rather than a quiet state — send us what you are seeing.

National developments that apply here

These are not about Texas specifically. They govern the cameras in it.

Documented harms and verification

Incidents

Verified Unsurveilled

  • Austin · Does not currently qualify

What we don’t know about Texas

2 open questions carried by records in this state. Each one is published rather than left blank, because an unresolved question a resident can answer is worth more than a page that looks finished.

  • What is the current scope, retention, and sharing configuration of Austin's ALPR use through Axon? Austin verification · public records request
  • Was the Axon ALPR capability procured before, during, or after the Flock cancellation? Austin verification · public records request

Help close the gaps.

We hold records for 2 Texas jurisdictions. There are far more than that. A single records request from a resident often establishes more than weeks of desk research.

Places in Texas

The largest 40 of 374 places we can put on the map. Selecting one centres the map there. A place appearing here says nothing about whether it has cameras — it is a label, and the camera layer is separate and incomplete.