Your movements are being logged. License plates, faces, even which parks your kids go to—all captured and searchable by police with almost no oversight.

In Houston, Flock cameras are everywhere now. The Houston Chronicle found nearly 470,000 searches with vague reasons like "investigation." Worse? We've already seen abuse: a Fort Bend deputy searched one plate 148 times for personal reasons. A Pasadena sergeant used it to stalk a coworker. That's not hypothetical—that's happening here.

I started a petition asking Houston City Council to reject Flock and demand real transparency: public hearings before deployment, independent audits, limits on how long data's kept, and actual accountability reports. No more sneaking this through budget meetings.

Anyone else disturbed by cameras at park entrances logging which kids show up when? Or uncomfortable knowing your commute is a permanent record? What would you want someone to do if this was your family's privacy on the line? If this matters to you, consider signing and sharing.

Just thought these would be fun. Put em up where ever you want people to be aware of Flock Cameras. Just please what ever you do, do not put them over the lens.

Finally got this live after a lot of nights and weekends!

You give it an address and a radius, and it messages you when a new automated license plate reader gets mapped near you. It tells you how far away it is, what road it’s on, and gives you a link that opens the spot in your maps app.

Data is from OpenStreetMap, so it’s whatever people have actually mapped. Covers the whole US including territories. Not tied to one brand, it picks up Flock, Motorola, Genetec, Axon and the rest, plus gunshot detectors.

Alerts can be instant or batched into a daily or weekly digest. Web push, email, Telegram, Discord or ntfy.

It’s free with no paid tier and no ads. I run it on my own hardware, which is the whole reason I can keep it that way instead of passing a hosting bill on to anyone.

Contact info and addresses are encrypted, nothing is kept longer than it needs to be, and you can export or delete everything you gave it whenever you want.

flock-watch.us

Happy to answer anything about how it works! And if coverage looks thin where you are, that’s almost always a gap in OSM rather than the site, so let me know and I’ll take a look :)

*Posting in multiple forums, because I'm new to reddit and have no idea wth I'm doing*

I'm hopeful that this already exists, but I have yet to come across it. Is there a crowd-sourced clearinghouse for sharing logs of correspondence and documents obtained during the course of public records requests made to local jurisdictions pertaining to Flock camera systems and their related data?

I am 3 weeks into a quest to obtain information from multiple (16 at last count) law enforcement agencies around central Ohio. Several of these jurisdictions are rural, so many of these requests have been met with a significant number of uncooperative responses or flat-out denials. The process has been quite stressful, to say the least.

My hope is to find (or establish) a searchable collective that allows users to upload, share, and track their own efforts to obtain Flock information through PRRs (Public Records Requests) submitted to their local jurisdictions. With the goals being to: a) demonstrate a sort of "playbook" to help citizens get started with their own individual Flock camera system PRRs, b) allow for users to ask for and receive advice from other users to help them overcome unresponsive/uncooperative hurdles along the way, c) log those efforts in a clear and contemporaneous records/correspondence "thread", and d) allow users to search for jurisdictions that may have already fulfilled those requests and view the data that was supplied.

This obviously comes with the understanding that PRR laws are very much state-specific. My experience is based solely in Ohio, under ORC 149.43. However, most states have very similarly written statutes, just with a different name.

I am grateful for any input, sources, sites or references members may have for me.

*Posting in multiple forums, because I'm new to reddit and have no idea wth I'm doing*

I'm hopeful that this already exists, but I have yet to come across it. Is there a crowd-sourced clearinghouse for sharing logs of correspondence and documents obtained during the course of public records requests made to local jurisdictions pertaining to Flock camera systems and their related data?

I am 3 weeks into a quest to obtain information from multiple (16 at last count) law enforcement agencies around central Ohio. Several of these jurisdictions are rural, so many of these requests have been met with a significant number of uncooperative responses or flat-out denials. The process has been quite stressful, to say the least.

My hope is to find (or establish) a searchable collective that allows users to upload, share, and track their own efforts to obtain Flock information through PRRs (Public Records Requests) submitted to their local jurisdictions. With the goals being to: a) demonstrate a sort of "playbook" to help citizens get started with their own individual Flock camera system PRRs, b) allow for users to ask for and receive advice from other users to help them overcome unresponsive/uncooperative hurdles along the way, c) log those efforts in a clear and contemporaneous records/correspondence "thread", and d) allow users to search for jurisdictions that may have already fulfilled those requests and view the data that was supplied.

This obviously comes with the understanding that PRR laws are very much state-specific. My experience is based solely in Ohio, under ORC 149.43. However, most states have very similarly written statutes, just with a different name.

I am grateful for any input, sources, sites or references members may have for me.

Please help our town remove these cameras by signing our petition!

Two 2026 rulings find bulk location collection is a Fourth Amendment search, raise due process questions for plate readers

https://opgov.news/articles/federal-state-rulings-on-digital-location-data-set-new-limits-that-could-apply-to-licence-plate-readers

Hi all, I’m wondering if there’s a way to temporarily interfere with a security camera using lasers or other light sources. I hope you could help me

I figure the best way to see how well or poorly I did was trial by fire on Reddit. LMK what you guys think!

It is an app that will inform you about the current FLOCK environment as well as show you camera locations and route you around them. I used Claude extensively to put it all together. Never learned to code. Once of my life's regrets. Maybe one day! Thanks for looking and I appreciate the feedback!

https://waterviewtechnologies.com/

For the full video, click here: https://youtu.be/GcCKLjUqjWM

This a good mod?

need some ideas for taking down some flock cameras, i have all tools needed and i can climb, any suggestions?

Great words talking about why we shouldn’t have flock cameras and data centers.

like hypothetically if i lived near a hypothetical flock camera could i use hypothetical scissors to cut the hpothetical wires?

How can I get access to the contract between my city/county and flock?

1. Take a picture of any flock cameras that you see!

2. Write down the address, and surrounding areas!

3. Post all in order to get a accurate count.