Flock surveillance map
138,636 documented ALPR surveillance cameras across 50 US states, mapped by volunteers and refreshed nightly. This page is about what that distribution shows — and what it can't show.
To use the map itself, open the interactive map. For what the network does with what it records, see Flock surveillance.
- 138,636
- Cameras documented
- 46%
- Concentrated in the top 5 states
- 6%
- In the top 10 cities alone
What the map reveals about the network
It concentrates, heavily
The top five states hold about 46% of all documented cameras, and the top ten cities alone about 6%. Some of that is genuine — ALPR sells into metro areas with the budgets and the crime statistics to justify it. But a meaningful share of that concentration is an artefact of who is doing the mapping.
Direction is the most useful field, and the most missing
1,911 of 138,636 cameras carry a recorded compass bearing. An ALPR reads plates only in the direction it points, so bearing is the difference between "there is a camera on this road" and "this camera photographs my lane". The gap in that field is the single most valuable thing a volunteer can close.
The blank areas are the story
Rural counties frequently show nothing. That is almost never because they have no ALPR — Flock's model sells readily to small departments, school districts and homeowners' associations — and almost always because they have no mapper. The map is at its least reliable exactly where oversight is thinnest.
Documented surveillance by state
| State | Cameras | Share |
|---|---|---|
| California | 20,632 | 14.9% |
| Texas | 16,740 | 12.1% |
| Florida | 9,996 | 7.2% |
| Georgia | 9,763 | 7.0% |
| Illinois | 7,219 | 5.2% |
| Ohio | 6,805 | 4.9% |
| New York | 4,423 | 3.2% |
| Indiana | 3,733 | 2.7% |
| North Carolina | 3,679 | 2.7% |
| Michigan | 3,664 | 2.6% |
| Tennessee | 3,586 | 2.6% |
| Virginia | 3,433 | 2.5% |
What a map can't tell you
A location map answers "where are the cameras". It cannot answer the questions that actually determine how much surveillance you are under: how long the reads are kept, who can search them, whether anyone reviews the audit logs, and whether your city's data leaves your city. Those live in contracts and policies, not on a map — and they are obtainable. See which records to request.
Related
Common questions
Is there a map of Flock surveillance cameras?
Yes. FlockScanner publishes a free public map of 138,636 documented ALPR (automated license plate reader) surveillance camera locations across 50 US states, including Flock Safety cameras, refreshed nightly from OpenStreetMap and last updated September 4, 2026. It shows each camera's position, the vendor where identified, and the direction it faces where that has been recorded.
How big is the Flock surveillance network?
Larger than any public map shows. FlockScanner documents 138,636 ALPR camera locations, but that counts only what volunteers have mapped. Flock Safety has publicly described its own network in the range of 100,000-plus cameras across thousands of US communities, and that figure excludes other ALPR vendors entirely. The honest summary is that the mapped number is a firm floor and the true number is unknown.
Where is Flock surveillance most concentrated?
Of documented cameras, the five states with the most are California (20,632), Texas (16,740), Florida (9,996), Georgia (9,763), Illinois (7,219), together holding about 46% of the national documented total. The top ten cities alone account for roughly 6%. Read that concentration carefully: it measures where cameras have been *mapped*, which tracks OpenStreetMap contributor density as much as ALPR deployment.
Does the surveillance map show every Flock camera?
No, and it never claims to. The map shows cameras that OpenStreetMap volunteers have observed and recorded. Coverage is geographically uneven — dense in cities with active mapping communities, sparse in rural areas where Flock also sells heavily to small departments. An empty area on the map is an unmapped area, not a camera-free one, and that distinction matters more than any other caveat on this site.
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).