ALPR & surveillance cameras by state

An automated license plate reader is a camera that photographs vehicle plates and converts them to searchable text, often logging the time and place each vehicle passes. Networks of them can reconstruct where a car has traveled over time.

From OpenStreetMap, an open, volunteer-maintained map. Contributors tag surveillance cameras with public details; Lantern reads those tags and plots them. We add no private data of our own.

Yes. Lantern republishes public, factual location data under the Open Database License with full attribution. It shows only where cameras are and who makes them — never personal information or any means of interfering with a camera.