Flock Cameras Map: 28 Maps of License Plate Readers and CCTV

Plate readers are mapped by the people who drive past them. The largest map here holds 74,777 cameras sorted by maker; most others cover one city or county, built from public-records spreadsheets or from walks with a phone, often noting which way each camera faces. Start with the national maps, then look for your state or city further down; at the end come Japan, Britain, Germany and Brazil.

ALPR Map USA: 74,777 License Plate Readers by Maker

The biggest plate-reader map in the index sorts its 74,777 points into three layers, one per maker: Flock, Motorola and Avigilon. The cameras often stand in clusters of three or four at one intersection, one per lane or direction. Around Olathe in Johnson County, Kansas, the Motorola units carry notes as exact as “Angled to capture Middle and Outer WB lanes” and “Captures all NB Outer lane traffic”. Made in uMap by McKenzieF, it covers the whole country and a few points abroad.

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74,77774,777 points

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United StatesBelgiumPuerto Ricoand 9 more

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New ALPR Map: One Week of Plate Readers Added

5,878 plate readers, all added in a single week, 6 to 13 August 2026, from Louisiana to Puerto Rico. lonestead’s notes read like a file on each camera: in Lewisboro, New York, “No record of Town Approval”, a state grant, “report of 2 year Data Retention”; at Detroit Metro Airport, readers on the “Ramp to international arrivals level from south”; a second reader “at main entrance of Lowes Cookeville TN”.

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5,8785,878 points

Countries

United StatesPuerto RicoVirgin Islands, U.S.and 1 more

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Flock Camera Map: 672 Cameras and Which Way They Face

A crowd-sourced Flock map with layers for Georgia, Ohio, Texas, Wisconsin and Lake County, Florida, and an invitation to send in locations and photos. The Georgia entries around Warner Robins say where each camera looks: “Facing South East after the Toyota Dealer entrance”, one “Attached to Speed Camera Pole. Tracking West Bound.”, one “on Moveable LED Sign”, and one with “flock painted on sidewalk in front of camera”.

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672672 points

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United StatesCanada

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Phoenix Flock Camera Map: 1,890 Cameras and Contracts

EastValleyUnite mapped 1,890 reported surveillance cameras across the Phoenix metro, “Flock camera, facing South on the west side of Ironwood” among them, and laid city outlines over them with the state of each contract. Chandler: “Flock contract cancelled.” Tempe: contract “expires in September 2027; will not be renewed.” Surprise: “Officer misused ALPR data”, cameras suspended, contract terminated. Each city links the news story of August 2026.

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1,8901,873 points, 17 areas

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United States

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Border ALPR Map: Plate Readers Hidden in Traffic Barrels

Along the US–Mexico border, plate readers come in disguise. The “Covert ALPR” layer holds 95 units numbered COVERT001 onward, most of them inside construction barrels, others in sand-filled crash barrels and trailers, starting east of Calexico with the direction of traffic each one reads. Around them: 124 readers at checkpoints and ports of entry, 45 face-recognition crossings sourced to CBP, 598 surveillance towers and the radar balloons at Yuma, Fort Huachuca, Deming and Marfa.

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874874 points

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United StatesMexico

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Seattle Surveillance Camera Map: Every Kind in Nine Layers

A “living inventory” of Seattle’s cameras, each kind in its own layer: red-light cameras by approach (“EB NE 45th St and Roosevelt Way NE”), SDOT’s “Block the Box” and transit-lane plate readers downtown, SDOT and WSDOT traffic cameras, and police CCTV marked “precise locations need verification”. Polygons add what the cameras serve: the SODA and SOAP zones of 2025 and “Dragnet Zones” from Aurora (85th to 145th) to Chinatown-International District.

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765744 points, 2 lines, 19 areas

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United States

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N-System Map Japan: 8,702 Police Plate Readers

Japan’s police plate readers, the N-System, mapped terminal by terminal: those wired to the National Police Agency, four regional layers of the simplified units and the road ministry’s AVI travel-time readers, updated in October 2026. Each entry gives prefecture, road, direction, model and lanes read, and what the unit is mounted on, often “parasitic” on a traffic sign, signal or detector pole. Moved units keep their old spot: “before relocation 35.40948,139.62557” on the Tokyo Bay road in Yokohama.

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8,7028,702 points

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Japan

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San Francisco Flock Map: 428 Cameras and Drone Pads

DeFlockSF splits San Francisco’s Flock cameras into those of the police and those bought privately, with the police readers outnumbering the private ones. A third layer holds something few maps have: two “SFPD Flock Drone Pad” sites, one near Potrero Hill and one near Glen Park, where the police launch drones.

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428428 points

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United States

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ALPRs Near Gun Shops: 279 Cameras at Stores and Ranges

lonestead asks a pointed question of the plate-reader data: which readers stand next to gun stores, shooting ranges and smoke shops? Two layers answer, 208 points at smoke shops and 71 at gun stores. The notes name the hardware, from a “Verkada Bullet Series” in Tucson to a “Hardwired Flock PTZ 360” in Fort Smith and one “Attached to Shell station sign”.

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279279 points

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United StatesVirgin Islands, U.S.

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Connecticut ALPR Map: 759 Plate Readers by Department

759 readers across Connecticut, each titled with its bare coordinates and noted with its owner and mount: “Putnam PD”, “Stonington PD Pole Mount”, “Norwich PD Street Lamp Mount”, “West Hartford PD Traffic Signal Mount”, and a “Lowe’s Pole Mount”. Extra layers place the state’s court houses, hospitals, immigration attorneys and reproductive health clinics, so you can see which cameras stand near them.

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759759 points

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United States

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Kansas City ALPR Map: 276 Cameras and Their Vendors

The Kansas City metro by county, from Johnson (140 cameras) and Jackson (100) to Cass (2), with the vendor of nearly every site. Genetec readers line 75th Street, “All directions” at many crossings, Vigilant Systems watches “119th & I-35”, and at Scheels the note reads “5 FLOCK systems in total, all facing in towards the parking lot”.

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276276 points

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United States

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UK ANPR Camera Map: 790 Fixed Plate Readers

Britain’s fixed number-plate cameras, made as part of a campaign against mass surveillance. The list begins in Northern Ireland, with gantries on the M1 at Dungannon (“Set of 6 cameras both East and Westbound”) and Sprucefield, then works through Belfast street by street: Grosvenor Road, Divis Street, Queens Bridge, Belfast City Airport, and Belvoir Road, where the camera is “Almost hidden in the trees”.

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790790 points

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United KingdomFranceNetherlands

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Indiana ALPR Map: 465 Plate Readers by Direction

Every title starts with a code for the traffic it reads: (E), (W), (N), (S), or (GI) for cars going in. At University Park Mall in Mishawaka four “(GI)” readers watch the entrances; on IN 23 one reader catches “cars going north into Michigan”; one is marked “(MISSING)”. Layers run from Northwest Indiana and Indianapolis to the toll road, with Raven gunshot detectors and a layer of unverified spots.

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465465 points

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United States

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Richmond Flock Camera Map: Readers, Ravens and Guesses

kfinity mapped Richmond, Virginia, in three layers: plate readers, some with a link to the Leonardo ELSAG Street Sentry, “Ravens”, Flock’s gunshot detectors, and “Possible Locations”. That last layer keeps the uncertain ones honest, “Harwood St #2?” and “Missing 1 somewhere along North Ave”.

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279123 points, 156 areas

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United States

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Campus Police Surveillance Map: 251 Colleges

Journalism students at the University of Nevada, Reno, catalogued what campus police use, for a report with the EFF: plate readers, body cameras, drones, face recognition. The plate-reader entries come with numbers. In 2018 the University of Maryland police scanned 8,765,641 plates and Towson University 3,676,764, from six fixed sites with ten cameras; Florida State’s readers turn up in the vendor’s own promotional material.

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251251 points

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United States

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Wisconsin Flock Camera Map: 200 Cameras From Open Records

Southeastern Wisconsin’s Flock cameras as the cities listed them in answer to open-records requests, one layer per spreadsheet: Waukesha and Kenosha, West Allis and Beaver Dam, Milwaukee, Pleasant Prairie, Greenfield, Germantown and more. Each camera keeps its number and the city’s own “Intersection or address”, such as “SE Appleton Ave and County Line Road”.

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200200 points

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United States

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Northern California ALPR Map: Foothill Towns Camera by Camera

135 readers in the Sierra foothills, from Rocklin and Roseville up to Grass Valley, Auburn, Yuba County and Truckee, each with the way it faces. The maker goes back to check: in Grass Valley one reader on East Empire is “Gone as of 1/17/23. Probably moved to Empire x Whiting St”, where a camera now “Faces east toward Empire Mine”; another on East Main is “Missing, probably moved to Manor Dr”.

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135135 points

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United States

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East Bay Flock Map: Oakland, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Richmond

Five public lists in one map: Oakland’s and the CHP’s Flock cameras along I-880, Berkeley’s readers numbered with the direction each one reads (camera 01, “EB” on Ashby Ave at Seventh St), El Cerrito’s city list, the Port of Richmond, and Richmond’s Flock Falcons, a layer marked “WIP there are many, many more”.

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598598 points

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United States

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German License Plate Scanner Map: Kennzeichenerfassung

Germany’s automatic plate scanners on the autobahn, worked out site by site: 14 verified, seven from published sources, six suspected positions, one former site and eleven checked routes. The notes describe how they are hidden, “Unter Brückenvorsprung versteckt” on the A6 at Waidhaus, and reason like detectives: the A13 site at Großräschen “fits no previous pattern”, since it would need two extra scan units. Sources run from netzpolitik.org’s 2013 list for Brandenburg to Patrick Breyer’s photos.

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3922 points, 17 lines

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GermanyAustria

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Little Rock Camera Map: Plate Readers and ShotSpotter

Little Rock in three layers: 115 plate readers, many marked “Flock License Plate Reader”, 57 police surveillance cameras and 31 ShotSpotter gunshot sensors, the sensors clustered in the blocks around Fair Park Boulevard and South Fillmore Street. One police camera “is placed on the Marriott Hotel”.

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203203 points

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United States

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Chicago ALPR Map: Readers at the Malls

The same direction codes as the Indiana map, applied to Chicagoland’s suburbs, where many readers watch shopping centres: “(GI)” and “(GO)” pairs read cars going in and out of North Riverside Park Mall, and another catches “all east bound traffic into Orland Square Dr, Mall”. Two smaller layers hold red-light cameras and a Raven gunshot detector.

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122122 points

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United States

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ALPR Records Map: 534 Public-Records Requests

Where the plate-reader documents came from. Each point is a request filed by Dave Maass through MuckRock and marked “Completed”, most of them titled “2018 Vigilant Data Sharing Information”: which agencies a police department shares its plate-reader data with, from Bakersfield and the Austin Regional Intelligence Center to Ball Ground, Georgia, and Beachwood, Ohio.

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534534 points

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United States

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Dallas Surveillance Camera Map: Police Cams and Plate Readers

Dallas police cameras numbered one by one and described by the corner they hang on: “360 degree police cam on signal pole on SE corner”. The maker watched them change: Cam 2 “gone as of 3/25/15. Camera back as of 10/25/15.” The plate-reader layer notes each scanner is “tied to 1 year of storage”; others cover private readers and Fort Worth.

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174174 points

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United States

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Curitiba Camera Map: Face and Plate Recognition

Curitiba’s city cameras sorted by what they can do, each type with its code: MDAR high-resolution, MDRF facial recognition, MDRPV plate recognition, MDP panoramic and three MDT thermal cameras, “Monitoramento Digital Térmico”. Further layers hold the older SIMM traffic and security CCTV and the cameras at the city’s tube stations, terminals and Praça Rui Barbosa.

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1,1211,121 points

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Brazil

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Ring Police Partnership Map: 358 Cities and Counties

The doorbell side of the camera network: 358 US cities and counties whose police joined Amazon Ring’s Neighbors program, each with its source, a police news page, a local report or a tweet, from Addison, Illinois, to Anne Arundel County. Some entries keep Ring’s own verification line: “Text ‘alexandriava’ to 555888 to verify”.

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358358 points

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United States

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Police Surveillance Technology Map: Five Bay Area Counties

Which agency uses what, in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, Sonoma and Solano counties: body cameras, plate readers, camera networks, camera registries, drones and gunshot detection, each entry with vendor, summary and a source. Much of it was found in plain sight: Cloverdale, Concord and Danville police are identified by the Axon Body 2 cameras officers wear on their Facebook pages.

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186186 points

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United States

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Green Bay Flock Camera Map: 77 Numbered Cameras

A small-city map keyed to one numbering: “Flock #1 - Velp Av. and Military Av.”, #9 and #10 at East Mason and Bellevue, #12 and #13 on Lombardi Avenue by the stadium. The maker warns the list may be incomplete.

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7743 points, 28 lines, 6 areas

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United States

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University of Maryland Camera Map: What Each One Sees

A campus where cameras come with coverage: 118 “Camera Ranges” polygons drawn around 78 dome cameras, 44 blue-light cameras and 14 fixed CCTV units at the University of Maryland. They are named by building, from the Chemistry Dome Camera to “The Diner Dome Cam 2” and the Center for Young Children.

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255137 points, 1 line, 117 areas

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United States

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