Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky
Volunteers have reported 53 automated license plate readers in and around Lexington-Fayette — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 55 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lexington-Fayette, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Lexington-Fayette itself.
The rest sit in Lexington (55).
19 of them name an operator in the record: Lexington Police Department (15), Central Bank & Trust Co. (2), Flock Safety (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Lexington-Fayette in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:19 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lexington-Fayette
The readers mapped around Lexington-Fayette break down as 55 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lexington Police Department, Flock Safety, Central Bank & Trust Co.. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Winchester Road — 3 readers
- North Limestone — 2 readers
- Elkhorn Road — 2 readers
- Sir Barton Way — 2 readers
- Bryan Avenue — 2 readers
- North Broadway — 2 readers
- Eastland Parkway — 2 readers
- West New Circle Road — 2 readers
- Newtown Pike — 2 readers
- West New Circle Service Road — 2 readers
- Russell Cave Road — 2 readers
- Citation Boulevard — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Lexington-Fayette — all on the live map above.
Lexington-Fayette in the Fayette County picture
Fayette County has 172 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #456 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21.3% nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 51 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lexington Police Department (15), Flock Safety (2), Central Bank & Trust Co. (2).
Camera activity around Lexington-Fayette, last 30 days
6 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lexington-Fayette. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Lexington-Fayette
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 Lexington-Fayette — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lexington-Fayette (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lexington-Fayette
What you can do in Lexington-Fayette
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.
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Cameras near Lexington-Fayette
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).