5 Calls 5calls.org
Tool for finding your representatives and calling them, with scripts. Not surveillance specific, but the fastest route from concern to contact.
Directory
Resources
Everyone working on license plate reader surveillance, on both sides. Critics, researchers, journalists, agencies running programs, and the vendors themselves.
Listing the other side is deliberate. A directory that only carries allies is a reading list, and it is the first thing an opponent points at. Read the agency FAQs and judge for yourself.
Critics and watchdogs
ACLU: Get the Flock Out www.aclu.org
The ACLU's national campaign page against Flock-style ALPR surveillance, with a state-by-state map of affiliate work: local coalitions, contract cancellations, and model legislation. The place to find or join organized opposition in your own state.
ACLU: You Are Being Tracked www.aclu.org
ACLU's long-running research on license plate readers as routine mass location tracking, with model policy recommendations for local governments.
ALPR.watch alpr.watch
Calendar and map of upcoming public meetings with surveillance items on the agenda, with email alerts when one is scheduled near you. The most directly actionable tool in this list.
Atlas of Surveillance atlasofsurveillance.org
EFF database documenting which law enforcement agencies use which surveillance technologies, including several thousand agencies using Flock products.
Ban Flock Cameras banflockcameras.com
Sourced tracker of terminated Flock contracts - 82 across 28 states between August 2021 and May 2026, 39 of them in the first five months of 2026 - plus state-by-state ALPR law pages and a take-action guide framed explicitly as lawful civic advocacy. Its termination data has been cited by national outlets.
DeFlock deflock.org
Crowdsourced map of ALPR camera locations built on OpenStreetMap, around 100,000 devices mapped. The open dataset most other camera maps draw from. Also offers privacy-optimised routing.
EFF: Anti-Surveillance Mapmaker Refuses Flock’s Cease and Desist www.eff.org
EFF represented DeFlock creator Will Freeman after Flock Safety sent a trademark cease-and-desist over the crowdsourced camera map, and rejected the demand as meritless - critical, nominative use of a company name is protected First Amendment activity. The precedent most directly relevant to any site, including this one, that names Flock to report on it.
EFF: Automated Licence Plate Readers sls.eff.org
EFF's technical primer on how ALPR systems work, what they capture, and how the data is shared between agencies. Plain explanation of the mechanics.
EFF: Automated License Plate Readers sls.eff.org
EFF's technical primer on how ALPR systems work, what they capture, and how the data is shared between agencies. Plain explanation of the mechanics.
Eyes Off Indiana eyesoffindiana.org
State-level tracker joining OpenStreetMap camera counts to Census place boundaries and EFF agency records, refreshed nightly. A good model for what a state chapter can look like.
FlockHopper dontgetflocked.com
Route planner that builds driving directions avoiding known ALPR cameras, indexing roughly 90,000 of them.
Have I Been Flocked haveibeenflocked.com
Collects FOIA audit logs from agencies nationwide and makes them searchable and cross-referenced. The place to look before requesting your own city's logs.
Institute for Justice ij.org
Public interest law firm litigating Fourth Amendment challenges to ALPR networks, including the Norfolk case where a court described the camera network as a dragnet over an entire city.
Stop Flock stopflock.com
Long-form explainer on what Flock cameras capture, how widely they are deployed, and the civil liberties questions they raise. Heavily footnoted and a good first read for someone new to the topic.
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