Flock & ALPR cameras in San Antonio, TX

San Antonio Police Department is the dominant operator, with 248 of the 728 mapped cameras — 34% of the metro, ahead of Bexar County Sheriff's Office on 40. That lead share ranks 79th of the 251 metros BanditKin tracks, so San Antonio is a concentrated network.

Not every reader here belongs to a public body. The Home Depot (6) appears among the largest operators, and 5 of the cameras carrying an operator type are recorded as private.

89% of the mapped cameras around San Antonio (651 of 728) carry a facing direction — 147th of the 251 tracked metros. Bearings are what make camera-aware routing possible, so the higher that share, the more the avoidance layer can do here.

Public records cover 8 agencies around San Antonio in the EFF Atlas of Surveillance against 45 operators on the map — the difference between a records project and a mapping project, not a contradiction.

The network is regional rather than municipal. Beyond San Antonio Police Department, the operator table runs through Cibolo Police Department, Schertz Police Department, Live Oak, Universal City and Windcrest Police Department, with the Bexar County Sheriff's Office at 40 — none of which individually dominates the metro.

Read from the live map on 3 September 2026. The underlying records are OpenStreetMap entries plus community submissions — nobody who operates a camera is obliged to declare it, so these are the documented minimum rather than the full picture. The metro is a box roughly 50 miles across centred on San Antonio.

San Antonio ranks 71st of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Wilmington, DE and Columbia, MD, and 62nd by operator count.

Its cameras-per-operator figure of 16.2 ranks 110th, its lead operator's 34% share ranks 79th, and its 89% bearing coverage ranks 147th — all of 251.

Ranked against the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks, every one read from the live map on 3 September 2026. Metro areas are drawn as a box around the city centre, so neighbouring metros can share cameras and these counts must never be added together.

These are the 20 largest of 45 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (446 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 177 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 28 of 728 mapped cameras name no manufacturer at all, which makes the actual distribution broader than shown. These count cameras on the map, not purchase orders.

Look for a slim grey or black box the size of a shoebox on its own pole, usually paired with a small solar panel, at intersections and on the approaches to shopping centres. Recorded mounts around San Antonio:

One camera covers one approach, so its heading is what decides which journeys end up recorded. Around San Antonio the mapped bearings distribute like this:

Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 76 mapped cameras have no recorded bearing, and 1 is tagged as omnidirectional.

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.

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