Recording now

Do you know what that camera just recorded?
Most don't.

Thousands of neighborhoods have license plate readers logging every car that drives past — plate, time, direction, photo. Print the sign. Post it next to the camera. Let the street do the talking.

Download PDF ↗ Order kit →
CC-BY licensed No sign-up Bilingual EN · ES Weatherproof option
Public Notice · Aviso Público
EN / ES
⚠

This camera
is tracking
you.

Esta cámara
te rastrea.

Logged · RegistraPlate · time · direction
+ AI search · BúsquedaMake · color · marks
Retained · Retenido30 days · shared nationally
Queryable · Consultable5,000+ agencies, incl. ICE
Warrant · Orden judicialNot required · No requerida
Ask your city council why. Pregúntale al concejo por qué.
Learn more · Más info → whatsthatcamera.org
The sign · 11×17 in / Free PDF / 10-piece kit
The whole idea

Three steps.
That's the whole campaign.

No app. No account. No marches. Just a piece of paper, where the truth needs to be.

Step one

Find a camera

Small black box on a pole, often with a solar panel. Use the DeFlock map to confirm one near you, or just look up next time you stop at a light.

Open the camera map →
Step two

Post the sign

Print the free PDF, or grab a weatherproof vinyl pack. Tape or zip-tie it to the pole at eye level. Posting on public-facing equipment is legal in most places — worth a quick check of your local rules first.

Step three

Report & share

Add the camera to DeFlock's crowdsourced map. Then post a photo of the camera and your sign wherever your community lives — Reddit, Mastodon, the local paper, your city council inbox. The sign isn't the point; the conversation it starts is.

Report a camera →
Two ways to get it

Print it yourself.
Or have it shipped.

The free version prints on any home printer. The kit ships laminated and weatherproof, with zip-ties and an install card.

Free
Option A · Self-print

Download the PDF

$0 CC-BY licensed
  • 11×17 print-ready PDF, CMYK
  • Bilingual (EN · ES) on every sign
  • Vertical, horizontal, and 8.5×11 compact
  • Editable Figma & Affinity source files
  • QR auto-resolves to your city if you fork it
↓ Download all formats
Ready to post
Option B · Ready-to-hang kit

Order the kit

$24 / kit of 10 · shipped at cost
  • Laminated, hi-vis yellow paper
  • Five 11×17 classic + five 17×11 wide
  • Zip-ties and install card included
  • No profit — pricing covers print + ship
Order the kit ↗
Sign library

Pick the version
for your block.

All free. All bilingual (EN · ES). All CC-BY. Use them, remix them. Pull request a new language and we'll add it to the library.

Classic sign preview — 11×17 vertical
Classic · bilingual 11×17 · vertical · PDF
↓ Download
Compact sign preview — 8.5×11 letter
Compact · letter size 8.5×11 · home printer · PDF
↓ Download
Public Notice · Aviso Público
EN / ES
⚠

This camera
is tracking
you.

Esta cámara
te rastrea.

Logged · RegistraPlate · time · direction
+ AI search · BúsquedaMake · color · marks
Retained · Retenido30 days · shared nationally
Queryable · Consultable5,000+ agencies, incl. ICE
Warrant · Orden judicialNot required · No requerida
Ask your city council why. Pregúntale al concejo por qué.
Learn more · Más info → whatsthatcamera.org
Wide · banner 17×11 · horizontal · PDF
↓ Download
The short version

If you only
read one thing.

Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) photograph every car that passes and log plate, time, direction, make, model, color, and distinguishing marks to a searchable cloud database.

The database is queryable by 5,000+ agencies, including out-of-state police and federal partners — usually without a warrant. Texas deputies have used it to track women who got abortions. Cities are starting to cancel contracts.

Most residents have no idea any of this is happening. Posting a sign is the smallest, most legal, most non-destructive intervention possible.

Read EFF's deep dive on ALPRs →
DeFlock Crowdsourced map of 76,000+ ALPRs in the US
↗ deflock.org
Atlas of Surveillance EFF's database of police surveillance tech
↗ atlasofsurveillance.org
EFF — Street Level Surveillance In-depth explainers on ALPRs and police tech
↗ eff.org
Have I Been Flocked? Check whether your plate has been searched
↗ haveibeenflocked.com
404 Media — abortion surveillance Texas cop searched 83,000+ cameras nationwide to track a woman who self-administered an abortion
↗ 404media.co
EFF — the cover-up unraveled Court records contradict Flock's and Johnson County's "missing person" narrative
↗ eff.org
The Record — Norfolk Fourth Amendment ruling Federal judge ruled Norfolk's 176-camera network is constitutional; appeal pending
↗ therecord.media