License plate readers in El Paso, TX
Volunteers have documented 236 automated license plate readers inside El Paso. That is the 6th-largest total among the 215 Texas cities indexed here, and 1.4% of the statewide total. Its 0.9 readers per square mile spread across 258.8 square miles — thinner coverage than 79% of the 2,395 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's and The Home Depot.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed August 31, 2026.
236
readers documented
0.9
per square mile
6th
of 215 indexed Texas cities · 32nd of 2,395 nationally
1.4%
of Texas’s documented total
Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Who makes them
- Flock Safety177 · 75%
- Motorola Solutions6 · 3%
- Leonardo/ELSAG38 · 16%
- Other vendors3 · 1%
- Unknown12 · 5%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 213 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Lowe's (10), The Home Depot (4), Customs and Border Protection (3). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (19), traffic signal (9), street lamp (4), Back Side of Traffic lights to get rear (2), Back Side of Traffic Lights (1)
- Coverage area
- 258.8 square miles of land inside city limits.
Contract decision on record
In Sep 15, 2026, El Paso declined to renew its Flock Safety contract. Council voted unanimously to have Flock remove the city's 150 grant-funded plate readers, which police had stopped using Sept. 3 after the governor blocked state funding; the police chief said the city had told Flock it would not renew. Reported by El Paso Matters.
Cameras can still appear in the record above after a decision like this one. These locations change only when a volunteer edits OpenStreetMap, and a decision date is not a removal date. See this decision in the cancellation tracker →
Nearby
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