An interactive map of Flock Cams

owlninja

I added one a few months ago and went to go check it, and there are 2 others almost right on top of it pointing in different directions, I guess that can't be prevented? I'm fairly certain they didn't add two more ALPRs that close to each other.

bigwheels

When your car gets stolen, suddenly nobody can access the data. Are there any coordinated efforts for widespread scrubbing or removal of these parasitic devices?

runjake

Great site. Caveat: it does not seem to update camera statuses after initial reporting. I see several cameras that were removed long ago, or have been repositioned, but their old statuses remain.

snailmailman

This is a quite scary map. They are all over my local area. It may technically be possible to route a drive around them, but if you take the most convenient path between any two points at least one camera will spot you. I'd have to leave my neighborhood through back roads and enter local shopping areas through sidestreets. This data shouldn't even be collected in the first place, let alone consolidated into a national network that any police officer can decide to spy on me through.

cdrnsf

Remember, according to Flock's CEO, Deflock is a terrorist organization.

pietervdvn

If you spot missing camera's - Flock or not - you can add them to OSM easily with https://mapcomplete.org/surveillance

slg

Just anecdotally looking around my city, it's noticeable that the camera's locations have a much stronger correlation with areas of high wealth rather than high crime.

baggy_trough

This is great, we can see where more cameras need to be added around the neighborhood!

avsavani

love this , give me more cameras please , fuck those criminals.

drunken_thor

Haha Sudbury and Napanee are the only places in Canada to have them. They are tiny cities where nothing happens. Bored police officers imagining situations where they are needed.

glitcher

In my area I'm seeing a few random ones on roadways, but mostly clusters of them in the parking lots of Home Depots, Lowes, and Wal-Marts.

willis936

Woof. There is one that I basically must drive by everyday close to where I live. How can I figure out who is responsible for its installation so I can let them know how I feel (and will vote) about it?

NoSalt

I wonder how long until the site gets taken down. You know ... to protect the children.

sanufar

Jeez there’s a few all around my uni and surrounding areas, did not know about that at all.

tmshapland

How do we make this site mainstream? The public would really start to push back if they could so viscerally experience that they are being surveilled multiple times per day.

whimsicalism

Much prefer camera driven enforcement to cop-on-beat driven enforcement.

nickstinemates

None in my area. Time to disperse. Get out of major cities like the pandemic promised. Fill in this great country we live in. Proliferate the governments surveillance for them.

LordGrey

Coincidentally, a nearby county has just announced that they have begun installing new Flock cameras [0]. Their stated reason is: "Along with the cameras being used to reduce crime, the sheriff’s office said they may also be used for public safety concerns, including AMBER Alerts and Silver Alerts." The cameras are good when we're all on the happy path, but as soon as a bad actor gets involved, all of that surveillance won't look so great. History shows that the odds of that happening are decidedly non-zero. EDIT: Searching for some info on the grant referenced in the article, it appears that a county must match 20% of the grant amount; one example is [1]. I'm sure this looks like a great deal to county officials. [0] https://www.ketk.com/news/crime-public-safety/new-traffic-ca... [1] https://www.beltontexas.gov/news_detail_T11_R1277.php

craftkiller

Huh, none on the upper west side in NYC. Interesting.

segmondy

Interesting ... the police in this case are claiming to be the owners of the camera. https://oaklandcounty115.com/2026/03/03/clarkston-man-accuse...