independent surveillance tracker

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the watchers

tracking automated license plate readers and surveillance infrastructure across the united states — because transparency is the foundation of accountability.

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explore the data

every tracked camera, every connected agency, every shared network. aggregated from public transparency portals, openstreetmap, foia requests, and community contributions.

transparency portals

936 flock safety transparency portals scraped directly — camera counts, search volumes, data sharing networks, and prohibited use policies.

openstreetmap

crowdsourced camera locations verified and maintained by the osm community, cross-referenced with official sources for accuracy.

foia documents

230+ contracts, pricing, and deployment records obtained through public records requests — showing who paid what and where.

city intelligence

25,911 cities with demographic, geographic, and governmental data — cross-referenced with 99k+ municipal data layers.

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data sources

shadowtrack aggregates data from multiple independent sources to build the most comprehensive picture of alpr surveillance in the united states.

eyes on flock

aggregates flock safety's own public transparency portals — 936 agencies with camera counts, search logs, and inter-agency data sharing.

deflock

open-source crowdsourced mapping of alpr camera locations via openstreetmap — 116k+ cameras mapped by community contributors.

atlas of surveillance

eff's comprehensive database tracking police surveillance technologies — 15k+ records cross-referencing vendors, agencies, and tech types.

community contributions

102 local advocacy groups across 27 states feeding ground-truth data, contract discoveries, and deployment intelligence.

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