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A public map of Flock Safety ALPR cameras. AntiFlock catalogs automatic license plate readers spotted in public — built on OpenStreetMap and community submissions. Find a camera we don't have? We pay you in $SOL.
The vendor
About Flock Safety
Flock Safety is one of the largest ALPR vendors in the United States. Their cameras are deployed for police departments, sheriff's offices, federal agencies, private security firms, businesses, and homeowners associations. [Wikipedia]
Every vehicle that passes one of their cameras is photographed. Optical character recognition pulls the plate, and the capture — plate text, timestamp, GPS coordinates, and often a vehicle description — is uploaded to Flock's cloud.
Participating agencies can search across the whole network and share leads across jurisdictions, often without a warrant. [ACLU] Flock isn't the only vendor — Motorola Vigilant, Rekor, Genetec, and Axon operate the same way. See the full list on the What is an ALPR? page.
Further reading
- How Flock Safety quietly built a national ALPR networkEFF Atlas of Surveillance
- Flock Safety (company overview)Wikipedia
- ACLU on automatic license plate readersACLU
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soonThe dangers of ALPRs
Automatic license plate readers normalize tracking everyone, everywhere, all the time. A few specific harms:
Mass surveillance by default
ALPRs photograph every car that passes — not just suspects. Innocent drivers' movements are logged, stored, and made searchable.
Cross-jurisdiction data sharing
A single HOA camera can feed agencies hundreds of miles away. There's often no notice, no warrant, and no way to opt out.
Misreads and wrongful stops
Plate OCR is imperfect. People have been pulled over at gunpoint because a camera misread a character in their plate.
Abuse by individual operators
System access is often loosely audited. Documented cases include officers using ALPR networks to track ex-partners and journalists.