Find known automated license plate readers and surveillance programs, see the receipts, and take lawful action where you live.
Coverage is incomplete and we say so. If we hold nothing on your area, you get the records request that would change that.
118,623
license plate camera locations mapped across 49 states — and that is only what volunteers have found
Investigate suspects. Don’t surveil everyone.
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An inventory request asks a government to list the surveillance technology it operates. It is the question that opens all the others, and any resident can send it.
If you pick a community, it is remembered on this device only — never sent anywhere, never inferred from your address or location.
Counted from our own records at build time — nothing here is estimated or animated. Download the underlying data, read exactly how the map count was produced, or browse every source we cite.
Atlas · Surveillance map
Full map & filters →Known ALPR locations
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42 jurisdiction records · 50 of 50 states have data. Camera coordinates © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Boundaries and roads: US Census, public domain. Roads are drawn for orientation only — a camera near a road is not a claim about which road it watches.
Signal · Live surveillance intelligence
All items →Get the Flock Out coordinates state affiliates, model legislation, and litigation. It also publishes figures — and one of them is testable against our own map.
A Pinal County resident said he used his work truck to bend a license-plate reader pole so the camera pointed at the sky. He was arrested and faces a felony criminal-damage charge — in a state where two agencies have just walked away from their ALPR contracts.
A resolution is not a cancellation. In Binghamton the authority sits with the mayor, the mayor has said no, and one of the contracts renews automatically this month.
Three years of routine audits found nothing. The fourth found something. The largest Arizona city running Flock Safety cameras responded by revoking every officer's access and ending the program outright.
The largest ALPR vendor in American policing announced real, substantial limits on its own product. It also left the one question this campaign is about exactly where it was.
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More than 400 events in nearly every state, organised by DeFlock. Council meetings, records requests, information sessions. The organisers say plainly what it is not.
Why it matters
This site exists to make local action possible, and for one week there is a national scaffold for it. Almost everything Unsurveilled publishes is designed to be used by a person acting alone — a records request, a dossier, a council question — and acting alone is slow and discouraging. Four hundred events means the person in your town who has been reading about this quietly is probably not the only one, and finding each other is most of what turns a concern into a campaign. It also matters that the published tactics are the boring ones. Council meetings and records requests are what actually moved Chandler, Pinal County, Renton and Duluth, and a week of them is worth more than a week of noise. We are not the organisers of this and it is not our campaign; DeFlock called it, and pointing people toward it is simply the useful thing to do. The distinction the organisers draw is the same one we draw: opposing a surveillance system through public process is a different activity from damaging its equipment, and the difference is not a technicality.
Three routes. All lawful, all documented, all things one person can finish in an afternoon.
Contracts, policies, retention, sharing, cameras, and the questions nobody has answered — for your own community.
Start with a records request →Generate a records request, council questions, a two-minute public comment, and a local evidence packet you can print and hand over.
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No community has been verified yet. The standard has twelve criteria and requires a completed evidence review before any designation. 3 jurisdictions are currently under research — which means “investigate first,” not “award the badge.”
The seal only ever renders as verified when every criterion passes with evidence attached. It is generated from the record, not written by hand.
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Records last updated 1d ago · Aug 15, 2026
