Flock camera locations in Canada

Automated license plate readers have been reported across Canada, with the largest clusters in the Greater Toronto Area and around Vancouver. Canadian ALPR programs are mostly police-operated and use a mix of vendors, so fewer cameras carry Flock branding than in the United States.

OpenStreetMap volunteers have documented 643 ALPR cameras in Canada so far — about 337 of them around Toronto. Canadian coverage is younger than US coverage, so expect the map to fill in as more people contribute.

There is no official public map. Provincial privacy laws (like PIPEDA federally and FIPPA in Ontario) give Canadians access rights to records about themselves, and freedom-of-information requests to municipal police services are the usual route for details about local ALPR programs.

Yes — the map is built from OpenStreetMap, which anyone can edit. Tag a node with man_made=surveillance and surveillance:type=ALPR where the camera stands, and it will appear here and on every other project using the open dataset.

Yes, but only a few so far. Of the 643 ALPR cameras mapped in Canada, 5 are tagged as Flock Safety by the volunteers who mapped them, and 528 are tagged as other makers. The remaining 110 have no maker recorded, so the Flock count is a floor. Most Canadian plate readers are run by police services and use a mix of vendors.

Canadian police services and some private operators use automated license plate readers from several vendors. The map shows 5 cameras tagged Flock Safety among 643 mapped. The operator is recorded on 535 of the 643 cameras, most often Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (244), City of Brampton (101), York Regional Police (40), but it is whatever the volunteer who mapped the camera entered, so it is a lead rather than proof of who runs a particular Flock camera.

5 cameras tagged Flock Safety are on the map in Canada, out of 643 ALPR cameras of all makers (September 15, 2026). Volunteers add cameras every week — 124 were newly reported in Canada in the last 30 days — and a camera is only counted once someone has mapped it, so treat both numbers as a minimum.

The map has 547 ALPR cameras around the Ontario cities it tracks, 337 of them around Toronto. 4 of the Ontario cameras are tagged Flock Safety (0 around Toronto); the rest are other makers or have no maker recorded. Ontario has the most mapped cameras of any province.

71 ALPR cameras are mapped around British Columbia's cities on the map, 43 around Vancouver. 0 of the B.C. cameras are tagged Flock Safety.

By the cameras mapped around each city: Toronto, Ontario (337); Oshawa, Ontario (58); Chatham-Kent, Ontario (44), then Vancouver, Hamilton, Kelowna. Each camera is counted once, with its nearest listed city. 2 more are in small towns and rural areas that are not around any listed city.

Montréal 17, Calgary 0, Edmonton 0 mapped ALPR cameras around each city, of which 0 are tagged Flock Safety. Coverage outside Ontario and British Columbia is thinner, so a low or zero number is more likely a gap in the map than an absence of cameras.

Yes — the live map at the top of this page shows every ALPR camera reported in Canada, with Flock Safety cameras where the maker is tagged. Use the Map style button to switch between a heat map, a 3D skyline and street-level camera vision, or open the new-cameras map to see only what was reported in the last 60 days.

Police use of automated license plate readers is not banned in Canada, but it is governed by privacy law: a lawful purpose, limits on how long plate data is kept and who can see it, and some openness about the program. Whether a particular program meets those rules is for the privacy commissioners and the courts to decide. This is general information, not legal advice.

It depends on who runs the camera. Federal bodies such as the RCMP are covered by the federal Privacy Act. Provincial and municipal police services are generally covered by provincial public-sector privacy laws, such as Ontario's MFIPPA for municipal police and British Columbia's FIPPA. Private companies are covered by PIPEDA or a substantially similar provincial law. Each has its own access-to-information process and a commissioner who takes complaints.

Ask. Send an access-to-information request to your police service's freedom-of-information office and ask for its ALPR policy, how many fixed and mobile readers it has and where, how long plate reads are kept, who the data is shared with, and any audits. Services may withhold some details, and a refusal can usually be appealed to the provincial information and privacy commissioner.

Yes. Camera Watch emails you the day a license plate camera is newly reported within 1 to 25 miles (about 2 to 40 km) of up to three places you choose, such as home, work or school. It works for Canadian addresses; billing is in US dollars and you can cancel in one click.

The counts come from OpenStreetMap, where volunteers add cameras they have seen from public roads. The camera snapshot on this page was built September 15, 2026 and the newly-reported list October 31, 2026. Newly reported means the day a volunteer added a camera to the map, not the day it was installed, and a camera nobody has mapped is not counted, so every figure here is a minimum.