What each version added
The Fort Worth Flock Finder map, version by version, in plain language.
Newest first.
2.0September 2026Current
The map grows from one city to the whole county, and learns to explain itself.
- All of Tarrant County and Fort Worth. Every camera reported on DeFlock.org inside
the county or the city — 1,193 at launch, up from 438 — with a one-click
Fort Worth only view. Every count in the filter follows your choice, and the map
remembers it.
- Photographs accepted from the same area. Anything you can submit is something the
map can show. (The old check was a box drawn round the county; it turned away four cameras
in north Fort Worth.)
- A map key. Every symbol, what it means, and what the map does not claim
— drawn by the same code that draws the map, so it cannot fall out of date.
- Cameras that come down stay on the record. A dashed ring while nobody has
confirmed why a camera left the feed; a green struck circle once someone has checked the
pole. The only green on the map, and never set automatically.
- Places a camera can see, county-wide. Churches, schools, clinics, playgrounds and
more: 738 within 1,000 feet of a camera, 54 within 250.
- One vocabulary. Photographed sites and imported reports share the same marks;
the filter shows the same symbols as the map.
- The company by its name. Flock Group Inc., not the trade name. The one place the
map quotes an OpenStreetMap record says so, and the key explains why.
- Better on a phone. The map is never hidden behind the filter.
1.05 September 2026
Out of beta: the neighbours’ photographs joined by every camera reported
to DeFlock.org.
- The DeFlock.org layer. 430 cameras inside the Fort Worth city limits, refreshed
every morning from OpenStreetMap, each with the bearing it faces and a note when the report
is new.
- What are these cameras pointed at? A reveal that adds places with a camera within
1,000 feet, and lines from a place to each camera that can see it.
- The city limits, in the flag’s colours, with everything outside them dimmed.
- Opens on the whole city, and the “beta” comes off the badge.
BetaAugust 2026
The first map, built from what neighbours photographed.
- Photographed sites. Each pole investigated from the photographs, written up, and
put on the map with its devices classified: confirmed mass surveillance, other cameras and
sensors, things that capture nothing, and the not-yet-identified.
- Submit a photo. An upload page with the checks that keep a submission honest
— original files, recent, taken in the county — and review before anything is
published.
- The field guide. How to photograph a device so the picture is evidence: three
shots in a minute, seven in four.