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Flock Camera Map: Find the Cameras Near You
Every Flock Safety license plate camera volunteers have documented, on one searchable map — so you know what's watching before you drive past it.
Where are Flock cameras located?
Automated license plate readers (ALPR) from vendors like Flock Safety, Rekor, Motorola/Vigilant, and Genetec have become common on streets, in neighborhoods, and at intersections across the country, but no government agency publishes a single, complete list of where they are. Volunteers have been closing that gap directly inside OpenStreetMap, tagging camera hardware the same way they'd tag a fire hydrant or a bike lane. FlockScanner doesn't run its own camera database — it reads that same open, community-maintained dataset every night and republishes it as a map you can explore and state-by-state pages search engines can actually index.
FlockScanner doesn't run its own submission system, and it doesn't independently verify any camera's location — every marker traces back to an OpenStreetMap edit, refreshed on a nightly sync. If you want to add or correct a camera, that happens directly on OpenStreetMap; see report a camera. For the legal side of all this — what courts have said about license plate tracking, and which states actually regulate it — see our articles.
How many Flock cameras are there in the United States?
140,294
Flock and other license plate cameras mapped
Documented by volunteers on OpenStreetMap
Every car
Photographed, not just the ones breaking a law
Unlike a red-light camera, no violation is required
Nightly
Map refresh cadence
Synced from OpenStreetMap
What that actually means
A license plate camera does not check whether you did anything wrong. It records the plate, the time, the place, and a description of the car — every car, every time — and keeps it in a database that other agencies can search later.
Camera location data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL).
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