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Resources & Allies

Groups and projects working to keep license plate reader surveillance honest and accountable. Here are the maps, tools, and advocates doing the work.

Mapping & Transparency Projects

Other projects tracking plate reader cameras, plus tools to find out what your city has deployed.

DeFlock

Map

A community project mapping Flock Safety plate reader cameras, with tools for communities pushing back against surveillance.

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Eyes On Flock

Tracker

Tracks and analyzes the data Flock Safety publishes on its own transparency portals, including camera deployments and search activity.

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Have I Been Flocked?

Lookup

Check whether your license plate has been searched in Flock Safety's database.

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ALPR.watch

Tracker

Watches city meeting agendas across the US for discussions about plate reader cameras, Flock Safety, and facial recognition.

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ALPR Watch (alprwatch.org)

Map

Maps plate reader cameras worldwide and offers route tools that show how much surveillance coverage you drive through. Data is downloadable.

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Eyes Off CR

Campaign

A Cedar Rapids, Iowa campaign against plate reader surveillance. They map cameras, watch council meetings, and file public records requests.

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Flock ALPR Toolkit

Toolkit

Briefings, statistics, and ready-made talking points for city council meetings, so residents can challenge Flock proposals at home.

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DeFlock The USA (Camera Map)

Map

A live map of 128,000+ community-reported cameras, updated hourly. Tap any camera for details: who runs it, which way it faces, and when it was first reported.

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Organizations Fighting for Your Privacy

National organizations working to stop surveillance that runs unchecked.

EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

A nonprofit defending digital privacy and civil liberties. They publish deep research on plate reader surveillance and sue over warrantless tracking.

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ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)

Fights surveillance overreach through lawsuits and advocacy. State chapters have challenged Flock deployments across the country.

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Fight for the Future

A digital rights group that rallies public opposition to surveillance tech and pushes for technology that serves people.

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S.T.O.P. (Surveillance Technology Oversight Project)

Sues over invasive surveillance in New York and beyond, and pushes for laws that limit what the government can deploy.

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Institute for Justice

A public interest law firm challenging mass, warrantless plate reader surveillance in court, including landmark cases against Flock Safety.

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Brennan Center for Justice

A nonpartisan policy institute studying how surveillance technology affects civil liberties, democracy, and racial justice.

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Research & Data

Datasets and guides for digging into surveillance in your own community.

EFF Atlas of Surveillance

Data

The dataset behind much of FlockRadar's evidence: a searchable record of police surveillance technology across the US, built from public records.

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Oversight & FOIA Guides

Guide

MuckRock's guides and tools for filing public records requests about plate reader programs in your city. The first step to finding out what your police have deployed.

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