Flock Cameras Near Me: Find ALPR Cameras in Your Area
Search your city or town below to see what our database holds for it: documented Flock Safety and other automated license plate reader deployments, the agencies operating them, the source documents behind each record, and — where volunteers have mapped them — individual camera locations. We currently hold 4,143 documented deployment records across 3,523 communities. If your town isn't listed, that means we have no verified record — never that cameras are absent.
The map near you
Pan and zoom to your area. Deployment markers sit at the municipality or agency, never at a guessed camera pole; volunteer-mapped camera points sit at their mapped coordinates.
How to find Flock cameras near you
1. Search your municipality
Type your city or town into the search box at the top of this page. If we hold a documented deployment record or mapped camera coordinates inside that municipality, you'll get a page listing the agency, the vendor where a source names one, the source documents and any mapped camera locations. You can also open the national Flock Map and zoom to your area.
2. Check the state record
State pages list every community in our database for that state, plus municipalities where volunteers mapped cameras but no deployment record exists. Neighbouring towns often share an agency or a camera network, so it's worth reading the county around you, not just your own city.
3. Read the sources, not just the label
Every figure on a town page links back to the document it came from. If a page says a vendor is unconfirmed, the underlying record genuinely doesn't name one — we don't fill that gap in.
4. Report what you see
Volunteer mapping is how most individual camera coordinates get recorded. Send us a camera you've spotted or file a correction if a record is wrong.
Questions people ask
- What does a Flock Safety camera look like?
- Flock Safety's fixed automated license plate readers are typically small, dark rectangular units mounted on a slim pole or an existing utility pole, roughly at windshield height and angled at a traffic lane, often with a solar panel above and a small battery box. They usually carry no municipal branding. We do not identify hardware from photographs, so treat visual identification as your own observation rather than a confirmed record.
- What does an ALPR camera actually do?
- An automated license plate reader photographs passing vehicles, converts the plate into text, and stores that text with a timestamp, a location and usually a picture of the vehicle. Those records are searchable, and many agencies share them across networks with other departments. Retention periods vary by agency and by contract; where a source states one, we publish it on that jurisdiction's page.
- Are all mapped cameras confirmed Flock Safety cameras?
- No. Our database separates documented deployment records — from public records, government datasets and the EFF Atlas of Surveillance — from individual camera coordinates mapped by volunteers through DeFlock and OpenStreetMap. Many mapped points are tagged as ALPR without a confirmed vendor, and every page labels which category each figure comes from.
- Where does the location information come from?
- Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance and from government sources such as state police ALPR datasets and agency transparency reports. Individual camera coordinates come from the DeFlock open camera dataset, derived from OpenStreetMap and contributed by volunteers. Every page links the underlying source it used.
- My town isn't listed — does that mean there are no cameras?
- No. An absent town means we hold no verified record in our database, which is never evidence that cameras are absent. Agencies add and cancel contracts faster than public datasets update, and volunteer mapping is incomplete in most of the country.
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Frequently checked cities
- Flock cameras in Portland, Oregon
- Flock cameras in New York City
- Flock cameras in Chicago, Illinois
- Flock cameras in Houston, Texas
- Flock cameras in Los Angeles, California
- Flock cameras in Kansas City, Missouri
- Flock cameras in Detroit, Michigan
- Flock cameras in Columbus, Ohio
- Flock cameras in Birmingham, Alabama
- Flock cameras in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Flock cameras in Jackson, Mississippi
- Flock cameras in Hagerstown, Maryland
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.