{
  "snapshot_date": "2026-07-27",
  "source": "Google Trends via Crawlora API",
  "companion_study": "https://crawlora.net/blog/flock-camera-search-surge-2026",
  "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "scale_note": "Google Trends values are relative, not absolute search counts. All three interest-over-time keywords were pulled in a single API call, so they share one 0-100 scale and are directly comparable to each other. The region series is a separate call on its own 0-100 scale (100 = highest state) and is NOT comparable to the time-series numbers.",
  "interest_over_time": {
    "geo": "US",
    "time_range": "today 12-m",
    "search_type": "web",
    "keywords": [
      "Flock Safety",
      "license plate reader",
      "Flock camera"
    ],
    "weeks": 53,
    "flock_camera": {
      "baseline_range_through_march_2026": [
        1,
        5
      ],
      "baseline_weeks": 36,
      "peak": 100,
      "peak_week": "2026-07-26",
      "first_week_above_baseline_ceiling": "2026-04-12"
    },
    "license_plate_reader": {
      "peak": 2,
      "peak_week": "2026-05-17"
    },
    "flock_safety": {
      "peak": 15,
      "peak_week": "2026-07-26"
    }
  },
  "interest_by_region": {
    "geo": "US",
    "time_range": "today 3-m",
    "keyword": "Flock camera",
    "states": 51,
    "highest": [
      {
        "state": "West Virginia",
        "value": 100
      },
      {
        "state": "Arkansas",
        "value": 57
      },
      {
        "state": "Kentucky",
        "value": 55
      },
      {
        "state": "Idaho",
        "value": 53
      },
      {
        "state": "North Dakota",
        "value": 52
      }
    ],
    "lowest": [
      {
        "state": "California",
        "value": 24
      },
      {
        "state": "New Jersey",
        "value": 22
      },
      {
        "state": "District of Columbia",
        "value": 20
      },
      {
        "state": "New York",
        "value": 18
      },
      {
        "state": "Hawaii",
        "value": 17
      }
    ]
  },
  "related_queries": {
    "geo": "US",
    "time_range": "today 3-m",
    "keyword": "Flock camera",
    "rising_count": 9,
    "top_count": 25,
    "rising_all_definitional": true,
    "note": "Both lists are the complete returned sets, not selections. No query in either list concerns disabling, damaging or removing a camera; the nearest is 'deflock' (top, value 4), a camera-mapping project."
  },
  "deflock_self_reported": {
    "source": "deflock.org front page, scraped 2026-07-27",
    "lprs_mapped_usa": 121464,
    "cities_listed_rejecting_lprs": 94,
    "caveat": "Volunteer project's own self-reported counts; not an independently audited census."
  }
}