Flock camera locations map
FlockScanner's map plots 138,636 documented Flock Safety and other ALPR camera locations across 50 US states, refreshed nightly from OpenStreetMap and last updated September 4, 2026. It's free, needs no account, and covers the whole country in one view.
This page explains what you're looking at — what each marker means, why direction matters, and where the map's blind spots are. To just use it, open the live map.
- 138,636
- Camera locations on the map
- 1,911
- With a recorded facing direction
- September 4, 2026
- Map data last refreshed
How to read the map
Every marker is one camera tagged in OpenStreetMap as
man_made=surveillance with
surveillance:type=ALPR. Click one and you get three things:
- Vendor — who made the camera, where a contributor identified it. Flock Safety is the most recognisable, but Rekor, Motorola/Vigilant and Genetec hardware does the same job.
- Camera type — fixed ALPR, mobile ALPR, or a traffic camera that also reads plates. See ALPR vs. traffic cameras for why the distinction matters.
- Direction — the compass bearing the camera faces, on the 1,911 cameras (1%) where someone recorded it. This is the most useful field on the map and the most often missing: an ALPR reads plates in the direction it points, so a camera facing away from your lane doesn't photograph you.
Vendor breakdown across the map
| Vendor | Cameras mapped |
|---|---|
| Flock Safety | 109,141 |
| Unknown vendor | 18,640 |
| Motorola/Vigilant | 6,920 |
| Genetec | 3,194 |
| Rekor | 741 |
"Unknown vendor" dominates because identifying a manufacturer from the roadside is harder than spotting the camera. It reflects a gap in the tagging, not a gap in the hardware.
Jump to a state map
The national map is a lot to pan through. Each state has its own map page with a local count and a city breakdown:
- California map (20,632)
- Texas map (16,740)
- Florida map (9,996)
- Georgia map (9,763)
- Illinois map (7,219)
- Ohio map (6,805)
- New York map (4,423)
- Indiana map (3,733)
- North Carolina map (3,679)
- Michigan map (3,664)
- Tennessee map (3,586)
- Virginia map (3,433)
- Missouri map (3,422)
- Pennsylvania map (3,350)
- Alabama map (2,711)
- Colorado map (2,690)
- Arizona map (2,643)
- Washington map (2,281)
Where the map is wrong
Worth saying plainly, because a surveillance map that oversells itself is worse than no map. The dataset is contributor-driven, so its shape follows volunteer activity as much as camera deployment. A blank county is usually an unmapped county. A camera shown may have been taken down last week. Vendor and direction are missing far more often than they're present.
What the map is good for: confirming that specific, documented cameras exist at specific places, and giving you a floor on how many are around you. What it can't do is tell you an area is camera-free. See methodology for how the sync works and where it breaks down.
Related
Common questions
Is there a map of Flock camera locations?
Yes. FlockScanner publishes a free, public map of 138,636 documented ALPR (automated license plate reader) camera locations across 50 US states, including Flock Safety cameras. It was last refreshed on September 4, 2026 and updates nightly from OpenStreetMap. Every marker is a camera a volunteer observed from a public street and recorded; clicking one shows the vendor, the camera type, and the direction it faces where that has been tagged.
What does the Flock camera locations map show in 2026?
As of September 4, 2026, the map shows 138,636 documented ALPR camera locations in 50 US states. 1,911 of them (about 1%) also carry a recorded compass bearing showing which way the camera points, which matters because an ALPR only reads plates in the direction it faces. The map also includes a route planner that compares a direct route against one routed around documented cameras.
How accurate is the Flock camera location map?
Each point is as accurate as the OpenStreetMap contributor who recorded it, and FlockScanner does not independently field-verify any of them. Positions are typically accurate to within a few metres, but a camera may have been removed since it was tagged, or a new one installed and not yet mapped. Treat the map as a reliable floor — the cameras shown are real — rather than a complete inventory.
Why are some areas empty on the Flock camera map?
An empty area on the map means no OpenStreetMap volunteer has mapped cameras there yet, not that the area has no ALPR cameras. Coverage follows contributor activity: dense urban areas with active mapping communities look heavily covered, and rural areas often look empty even where cameras are installed. If you know of a camera that isn't on the map, it can be added to OpenStreetMap and will appear on FlockScanner within about a day.
Does the map show live Flock camera footage?
No. FlockScanner maps camera *locations* only. It has no access to Flock Safety camera feeds, captured images, or plate-read records, and neither does any other public site — those systems are restricted to the agencies that license them. What the map shows is where cameras are physically installed, based on public observation.
As of September 4, 2026, FlockScanner maps 138,636 documented ALPR (automated license plate reader) cameras across 50 US states, including Flock Safety cameras, sourced from OpenStreetMap and refreshed nightly. That figure is a lower bound on the number actually installed — it counts what volunteers have mapped, not what exists.
Camera location data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL).