Flock cameras in Toronto
The live map below is centred on Toronto, Ontario, and shows every automated license plate reader (ALPR) reported there by the OpenStreetMap community, including Flock Safety cameras where the maker is tagged. Tap any glowing dot for details.
Short answer: none near Toronto are tagged Flock Safety yet. As of September 15, 2026, volunteers have mapped 369 ALPR cameras within 40 km of Toronto, and 7 were newly reported in the last 30 days. The operators most often recorded are Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (187), City of Brampton (101), York Regional Police (35). Few are in downtown Toronto itself; most are in the surrounding area.
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Toronto in numbers
ALPR cameras around Toronto, by the numbers
Counted from the same map data as the map above, within 40 km of downtown Toronto (the Greater Toronto Area), as of September 15, 2026. A camera appears once an OpenStreetMap volunteer has mapped it, so every figure is a minimum.
369
ALPR cameras within 40 km
3 within 5 km of downtown
0
tagged Flock Safety
332 have any maker recorded
7
newly reported, last 30 days
21 in the last 60
87%
with the direction they face
recorded by the mapper
Cameras by area
| Area | Cameras | Flock | New, 60 d |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brampton | 163 | 0 | 12 |
| Vaughan | 72 | 0 | 4 |
| Markham | 60 | 0 | 0 |
| Mississauga | 53 | 0 | 1 |
| Pickering and Ajax | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| Downtown Toronto | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| North York | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Etobicoke | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Scarborough | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Each camera is counted once, with the nearest of these areas’ centres.
Which makers are on the map
| Maker | Cameras |
|---|---|
| RTX | 187 |
| Genetec | 137 |
| Axis Communications | 4 |
| Axon Enterprise | 3 |
| Motorola Solutions | 1 |
| No maker recorded | 37 |
Who the mappers recorded as running them
| Operator | Cameras |
|---|---|
| Ministry of Transportation of Ontario | 187 |
| City of Brampton | 101 |
| York Regional Police | 35 |
| Toronto Police Service | 2 |
| Ontario Provincial Police | 1 |
| The Home Depot | 1 |
| No operator recorded | 41 |
Operator is what the volunteer who mapped the camera entered. It can be wrong or out of date.
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Context
License plate readers in Toronto: what to know
Toronto has the most license plate cameras of any Canadian city on this map, which says as much about who has mapped them as about how many exist. Volunteers have documented the Greater Toronto Area far more thoroughly than other parts of Canada, so a gap elsewhere is more likely missing data than missing cameras.
The Greater Toronto Area is split between several police services and many municipalities, so there is no single list. What is public comes from police annual reports, council documents, access-to-information responses and what people photograph from the street.
More: all of Canada, Vancouver, the United States by state, what a Flock camera is and how to report one.
Flock cameras in Toronto: FAQs
Are there Flock cameras in Toronto?
None are tagged Flock Safety on the map yet. 369 license plate reader cameras are mapped within 40 km of Toronto, most of them RTX or Genetec, and 37 have no maker recorded, so the true Flock number may not be zero.
How many license plate cameras are in Toronto?
369 ALPR cameras are mapped within 40 km of Toronto, 3 of them within 5 km of the centre (September 15, 2026). 7 were newly reported in the last 30 days. These are cameras volunteers have mapped from public roads, so the real number is higher.
Where are the ALPR cameras in Toronto?
By area, nearest first: Brampton (163), Vaughan (72), Markham (60), then Mississauga, Pickering and Ajax, Downtown Toronto. Each camera is counted once with its nearest area. The map above shows every one, and the Map style button switches to a heat map or street-level camera vision.
Who runs the license plate cameras in Toronto?
Toronto is policed by the Toronto Police Service, and its neighbours are policed by regional services such as Peel, York and Durham, so cameras in the Greater Toronto Area can belong to different forces, to municipalities, or to private operators. Of the 369 cameras mapped within 40 km, 328 have an operator recorded by the volunteer who mapped them: Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (187), City of Brampton (101), York Regional Police (35), Toronto Police Service (2). The other 41 have none recorded. An operator tag is what a mapper entered, so it is a lead rather than proof.
Are Flock cameras legal in Toronto?
Police use of 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. In Ontario the relevant law for police services is the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA) for municipal police services, and FIPPA for the Ontario Provincial Police. Whether a particular program meets the rules is for the privacy commissioner and the courts. This is general information, not legal advice.
How do I find out if Toronto's police use ALPR?
Send an access-to-information request to the 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 information and privacy commissioner.
Can I find ALPR cameras near me in Toronto?
Tap "find cameras near me" on the map: it centres on your location and counts the mapped cameras within 5 miles (8 km). Your location stays in your browser. If you know of a camera that is missing, add it on openstreetmap.org and it appears here.
Can I get an alert when a new camera goes up in Toronto?
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. It works for Toronto addresses; billing is in US dollars and you can cancel in one click.
How accurate are the Toronto camera counts?
They come from OpenStreetMap, where volunteers add cameras they have seen. The camera snapshot was built September 15, 2026 and the newly-reported list October 11, 2026. Newly reported means the day a volunteer added a camera, not the day it was installed, and a camera nobody has mapped is not counted, so every figure here is a minimum.