Flock Cameras Are Reading Your License Plate All Over Texas, and the Only Map of Where They Are Is One Strangers Built Themselves

Tech

By Jerome London

Updated 15 minutes ago, August 6, 2026

Automated license plate readers made by a company called Flock are spreading across Texas, quietly logging drivers as they pass. There’s no official public record of where the cameras sit — so ordinary people have started building one themselves.

These cameras log your plate, your car’s color, and where and when you drove past, then feed it all to a searchable database.

Nobody in charge keeps a public map of where they are, so people started mapping them for each other.

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