Mapped ALPR cameras found — municipal deployment not independently verified.
Cameras on the map — paperwork missing.
We have no documented municipal deployment record for Willits, California. However, 3 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 3 of them source-tagged Flock Safety. Mapped camera locations are community evidence of hardware, not a record that the city owns or operates it.
OpenStreetMap contributors have mapped 3 individual ALPR camera locations whose coordinates fall inside the Willits, California municipal boundary — 3 of them source-tagged with Flock Safety branding. That is community evidence of hardware, not a government record of a deployment.
We do not currently have an official or EFF deployment record confirming that Willits owns, operates, purchased, or deployed these cameras.
Nothing on file. The EFF Atlas of Surveillance — our source for official and public-record evidence about agency and municipal ALPR use — contains no ALPR deployment record for Willits, California as of 2026-08-07. Absence of a record is not evidence that no deployment exists; it means no public record has reached the dataset.
Documented deployment — official, EFF or public-record evidence about an agency or municipality. Not present here. Community-mapped cameras — individual camera locations contributed to OpenStreetMap and published through DeFlock. Present here, and listed below.
A contract, council minute or records response is what turns this page into a documented deployment. Send us what you've found.
Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.
Everything on this page traces back to the records below. Where a record carries no linked document, we say so instead of filling the gap.
3 mapped camera points inside the Willits boundary, from OpenStreetMap contributors via the DeFlock ↗ dataset (ODbL). Each point links to its own OpenStreetMap record in the camera list on this page.
Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.
Other California communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
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NBC 7 San DiegoOct 21, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
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The UnionAug 13, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
A federal judge in the Northern District of California denied a motion to dismiss in McGinty v. Reimagined Parking, holding the plaintiff plausibly alleged harm to his 'right to know' about ALPR use in two parking garages. The analysis, written by defense-side lawyers, argues it is the first federal decision to follow California state-court reasoning that inadequate ALPR disclosure alone can survive dismissal. It involves parking-operator ALPR rather than Flock, but the disclosure theory travels.
Global Privacy Watch (Seyfarth Shaw)Aug 13, 2026News reportingOther ALPR
Data attribution
Portions of the surveillance deployment data on this site come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org ↗ Are You Flocked? is independent and is not affiliated with the EFF or Flock Safety. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
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