Flock & ALPR Cameras in Franklin, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 31 automated license plate readers in and around Franklin — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Franklin
The readers mapped around Franklin break down as 29 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Morton Street — 4 readers
- East King Street — 3 readers
- East Cornerstone Drive — 3 readers
- South Ashlar Drive — 2 readers
- West Jefferson Street — 2 readers
- Commerce Drive — 2 readers
- 5 Points Drive — 2 readers
- US 31 — 2 readers
- SR 44 — 2 readers
- Franklin Place Court — 2 readers
- South Morton Street — 1 reader
- East 300 North — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Franklin — all on the live map above.
Franklin IN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Franklin IN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 109 other agencies.
Franklin in the Johnson County picture
Johnson County has 100 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #365 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 17% nationally. That’s across 163,983 residents and 1,368 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 7.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (2).
Camera activity around Franklin, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Franklin. Latest change logged Aug 16, 2026.
What’s watching Franklin
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Franklin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Franklin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Franklin
What you can do in Franklin
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Franklin
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).