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.
No app. No account. No marches. Just a piece of paper, where the truth needs to be.
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 →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.
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 →The free version prints on any home printer. The kit ships laminated and weatherproof, with zip-ties and an install card.
All free. All bilingual (EN · ES). All CC-BY. Use them, remix them.
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. A Texas deputy used it to track a woman who had a self-managed abortion. 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.
See the full briefing — what it records, who can search it, what to do →