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Tracking America's fastest-growing invasive species.
They don't migrate. They don't sing. They just sit on poles and read license plates.
Are You Flocked? is an independent database and map documenting Flock Safety and automated license plate reader deployments across the United States.
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4,143 documented ALPR deployments across 3,523 communities, sourced from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. Database last updated 2026-08-07. A town with no entry means no verified record currently in our database — never proof that cameras are absent.
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Every state below has documented ALPR records on file.
Council voted Nov. 2 to stop paying for the city's plate readers and asked that they be removed for good and kept away from police use. The cameras had already sat unused for several months, and officials said removal would be coordinated with the company.
Local 12Nov 5, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
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Residents voted to prohibit automated license plate readers like the ones Flock sells. The result requires the town to remove or shut off its cameras and end its contract with the company, after the select board put the question on the ballot.
WGMENov 4, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
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Cameras in Millerton, Pine Plains and Amenia came down after Dutchess County decided in September to drop the system. Other units were still up past the county's Oct. 25 deadline because 22 of them need state right-of-way permits the company was still obtaining.
The Millerton NewsNov 3, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
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Public-works crews removed every leased camera on Oct. 31 and put them in storage for the company to collect. Officials had first said Flock would pay for removal, then clarified that the Oct. 21 date was a request rather than a contract deadline and that the county will not seek reimbursement.
Henrico CitizenNov 3, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
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A plain-English tour of automated license plate readers, what they record, and why reasonable people argue about them.
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