About this platform

Automated license plate readers photograph and log the movements of everyone who drives past them — overwhelmingly people suspected of nothing. In the last three years they have spread to tens of thousands of American intersections, mostly through vendor contracts approved with little public debate. Courts, legislatures, journalists, and city councils across the country are now actively contesting how this technology should be governed.

Stop Flock Cams Now exists so that any American can see what is documented about the cameras around them: where they are, who operates them, what the sources are, and how to participate lawfully in the public decisions that govern them.

Our principles

• Document, verify, educate, inform, organize, advocate. In that order.
• Sources on everything. Every record shows where it came from and when. Allegations, findings, and court decisions are always labeled as such.
• Strictly lawful. We never encourage vandalism, tampering, trespass, interference, or harassment — and we enforce that in moderation. Civic power comes from records requests, public meetings, and votes.
• Privacy-first, ironically enough. No ad trackers. Location searches are computed in your browser. We strip photo EXIF data. We hold as little as possible.
• Open by default. The camera database is ODbL with free dumps; verified reports flow back upstream to OpenStreetMap.

Independence

Stop Flock Cams Now is an independent public-interest platform. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Flock Safety, Inc. Camera data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Absence of a marker does not mean absence of ALPRs.

We build on the shoulders of the open-data community: OpenStreetMap contributors and the DeFlock project (camera mapping), and the EFF Atlas of Surveillance (agency records). Read the methodology, editorial standards, and data license.