What cities have Flock cameras?
2,155 US cities have documented Flock Safety or other ALPR cameras on FlockScanner, across 48 states, as of September 4, 2026. The ranked list is below, each city linking to its own page.
Read it as a floor. Flock Safety has described its network as operating in thousands of US communities, so the real number of cities with cameras is far higher than the number anyone has mapped. Absence from this list is evidence about volunteers, not about cameras.
- 2,155
- Cities with documented cameras
- 48
- States represented
- 6%
- Of all cameras in the top 10 cities
Cities with the most documented Flock cameras
Showing the top 50 of 2,155 cities. Browse every city by state →
How a city gets onto this list
A city appears here once volunteers have mapped enough cameras in it to be worth reading — the directory applies both a camera-count floor and a population floor, so a handful of cameras near an unincorporated crossroads doesn't generate a page nobody searches for.
Cameras are matched to the nearest US Census place centroid within roughly 20 km. That covers a metro area rather than an exact municipal boundary, so a camera just outside the city line can land in the city's count. It's an approximation, and a deliberately explainable one.
Why your city might be missing
- Nobody has mapped it. By far the most common reason.
- It's below the floor. A few documented cameras won't generate a city page.
- Cameras are outside the match radius. Rural cameras far from any place centroid are left unassigned rather than forced into the nearest town.
- The contract ended. A growing number of cities have cancelled or paused Flock contracts.
If you know of cameras that aren't mapped, they can be added to OpenStreetMap and will appear here within about a day — see report a camera.
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Common questions
What cities have Flock cameras?
FlockScanner documents ALPR cameras in 2,155 US cities across 48 states as of September 4, 2026. By documented count the largest are Houston, TX (2,252); New York, NY (986); Los Angeles, CA (923); Dallas, TX (885); Chicago, IL (793); San Diego, CA (675); Indianapolis city, IN (659); Atlanta, GA (596). Flock Safety has said its cameras operate in thousands of US communities, so the mapped list is a subset — a city absent from it may simply have no volunteer mapping it.
How do I find out if my city has Flock cameras?
Three checks, in order of speed. Search FlockScanner's map or ZIP code lookup for your area, which shows what volunteers have mapped. Then check your city council's agendas and minutes for an ALPR or Flock Safety contract — this is where purchases are approved, and it is authoritative in a way crowdsourced mapping is not. Finally, check whether your police department publishes a Flock transparency portal. A city missing from FlockScanner's list has not been shown to be camera-free; it has only been shown to be unmapped.
Which city has the most Flock cameras?
Of cities FlockScanner has mapped, Houston, TX has the most documented ALPR cameras at 2,252, followed by New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Dallas, TX. The top ten cities account for about 6% of all documented cameras nationally. This ranks mapping coverage as much as deployment — a city with an active OpenStreetMap community will rank higher than an equally-surveilled city without one.
Do small towns have Flock cameras too?
Yes, and disproportionately so relative to their size. Flock's model sells to small departments, homeowners' associations and school districts as readily as to major city police, and a town of a few thousand people can and often does run several cameras. Small towns are also the least likely to be thoroughly mapped, so they are systematically under-represented in any crowdsourced list including this one.
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).