Can you view Flock cameras live?
No. Flock Safety camera feeds are not public, and no website — including this one — can show you what a Flock camera is seeing. Any site claiming to offer a live Flock feed is misrepresenting what it has.
What is public is where the cameras are. FlockScanner maps 138,636 documented ALPR camera locations across 50 US states, including which way 1,911 of them face.
- No
- Live feeds are not public
- 138,636
- Camera locations that ARE public
- 1,911
- With a recorded facing direction
No site offers them
Why there's no public live feed
A fixed ALPR isn't a webcam. It exists to photograph vehicles and plates as they pass, run the read against hot lists in near real time, and store the result for later search. The output is a searchable record — plate, timestamp, location, vehicle description — not a video stream someone watches.
That stored output is restricted to the agency operating the camera and whoever it shares with. Public access was never part of the design, and there is no configuration in which a member of the public gets to query it.
What you can actually see
Camera locations
The live map plots every documented camera, with vendor, type and facing direction where recorded. That's genuinely useful — knowing a camera faces away from your lane tells you something real.
Agency transparency portals
A growing number of departments publish Flock transparency portals showing camera counts, search volumes, and data-sharing settings for their jurisdiction. Coverage of these has become a regular feature of the oversight beat.
Records about your own vehicle
A public-records request to the operating agency is the only route, and what you're entitled to varies sharply by state. See can you opt out of ALPR tracking? for the realistic picture of what options exist.
A note on sites promising live Flock feeds
They don't have them. If a site offers a "live Flock camera feed", it is either showing unrelated public traffic cameras, showing a map of locations and calling it live, or simply lying to collect traffic. There is no legitimate public source, because there is no public access to grant.
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Common questions
Can you view Flock cameras live?
No. Flock Safety camera feeds are not available to the public, and no website offers a live view of them — any site claiming to is misrepresenting what it has. Access to footage and plate reads is restricted to the law enforcement agencies and private customers that license the system, and their access is logged and auditable. What is public is camera *locations*: FlockScanner maps 138,636 documented ALPR camera positions across 50 US states, sourced from OpenStreetMap.
How can I view Flock cameras?
You can view where they are, not what they see. FlockScanner's public map shows documented camera locations, the vendor where identified, and the compass direction each camera faces. If you want to see the hardware itself, a growing number of agencies publish Flock transparency portals with camera counts and usage statistics for their jurisdiction, and some publish location lists.
Is there a Flock camera live feed?
Not publicly. Flock's fixed ALPR cameras are not designed as live-viewing cameras in the way a traffic webcam is — they capture still images of vehicles and plates, which are processed and stored for search rather than streamed for viewing. Even that stored imagery is accessible only to licensed agency users, not to the public.
Who can see Flock camera footage?
The agency or customer that operates the camera, plus any agency it has chosen to share with through Flock's opt-in lookup network — which in reported cases has meant thousands of other departments, including federal ones. Every search is supposed to be logged with the searching officer and a stated reason. Members of the public cannot search the system at all.
Can I find out if a Flock camera photographed my car?
Possibly, but not through any public website. The route is a public-records request to the agency that operates the camera, asking what ALPR data it holds relating to your plate and who has searched it. What you are entitled to varies by state — some states exempt ALPR data from disclosure, others treat it as an ordinary public record. FlockScanner cannot look this up for you and holds no such data.
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).