Flock & ALPR Camera Surveillance, Mapped in All 50 States

What is DeFlock The USA?

DeFlock The USA is an independent awareness brand tracking the quiet spread of Flock cameras and other automated license plate readers (ALPRs) across America. To “deflock” a town is simple: find the cameras, tell the neighbors, and make officials answer for them. We’re the national broadcast for that fight — and the movement’s reference library: the largest public archive of surveillance news, the only permanent history of the national camera network, the deepest local camera dataset (a report for every city in America), the biggest categorized video library, and a national directory of local chapters. All free. Our National Record Index is the largest public archive of Flock and ALPR surveillance news anywhere — 79,900+ headlines going back over a decade, sorted by topic, searchable, and growing every hour. If it happened in this fight, it’s in the National Record Index.

What is a Flock camera?

Flock Safety cameras are small, often solar-powered license plate readers mounted near intersections, neighborhood entrances, and shopping centers. Each one photographs every passing plate — not just suspects’ — and logs it with a time and location in a searchable database that’s routinely shared across agencies. Volunteers have reported more than 143,000 Flock and ALPR cameras nationwide, most installed with no public vote. New to this? Start with our plain-English primer or the surveillance glossary.

The archive nobody else keeps

A map is a snapshot; we keep the film. Every hour we check the national camera network against our own permanent archive and log what changed — every camera added, removed, or moved, with dates and receipts. Every camera on our map carries a dossier: who operates it, which way it faces, the street it watches, and when it was first reported. When a new camera is reported anywhere in America, it becomes a news item in our National Record Index within the hour — first anywhere. And ALPR votes often surface here before they happen, while there’s still time to show up and speak.

Find the Flock cameras near you

Our live camera map — powered by the open-source, volunteer-run DeFlock project (we support their work; we’re an independent brand, not affiliated) — shows every reported camera in the country. We’ve also built a local surveillance report for every state, county, and city in America: camera counts, rankings, local news, and what to do about it, from California to Texas to the town you grew up in.

Then do something about it

Cities from Austin to Ithaca have paused or ended their Flock contracts after residents showed up and asked hard questions. Our Take Action guides cover records requests, council meetings, and organizing — and local DeFlock chapters are already fighting in Atlanta, Tucson, and beyond. Spot a camera that isn’t mapped yet? Report it and put your town on the record.