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How to find Flock cameras near you

Check for reported license-plate cameras near your home, along your commute, or in your city, and how to read the results honestly.

Updated 2026-10-12 · data refreshed daily · corrections

There's no official public list of license-plate cameras. The best open source is volunteer mapping on OpenStreetMap, largely via DeFlock. Our tools search that data; as of 2026-10-12 it held 144,121 reported cameras in the US.

1. Check your street

Type a town, ZIP or address into the lookup. It counts reported cameras within 1–10 miles and lists the nearest ones with their status and when they were last checked. Your search goes to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim from your browser; share links only contain the town and a point rounded to about 1 km (privacy).

2. Check your commute

Track My Drive routes a trip and counts reported cameras within 50 meters of the route. Being near a road doesn't mean a camera is aimed at it.

3. Browse your city or state

Each city file shows a daily count, local decisions with sources, and the state law. State files rank states and link every city page.

4. Look at the map

The camera map shows clusters and a heatmap; click any camera for its status, source and a "Report a fix" link.

How to read the results

  • Reported, not verified. Pins are added by volunteers. Some are wrong, many cameras are missing. Zero reported doesn't mean zero cameras.
  • Status labels: "Corroborated" means the OSM entry has a survey/check date plus a photo, survey source or operator; "Community reported" is everything else; "Reported removed" is tagged disused or removed. Only 0.4% currently meet the corroborated bar (stats).
  • Who runs it is often untagged. For agency-level records, search the EFF Atlas of Surveillance.

Found one we're missing?

Add it on DeFlock. It shows up here after our next daily sync.