Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mount Vernon, Kentucky
Volunteers have reported 90 automated license plate readers in and around Mount Vernon — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 88 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mount Vernon, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Mount Vernon itself.
The rest sit in Lexington (88).
30 of them name an operator in the record: Lexington Police Department (27), The Home Depot (2), Flock Safety (1). 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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- Sep 26 License plate reader newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Mount Vernon
The readers mapped around Mount Vernon break down as 85 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Lexington Police Department, The Home Depot, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Harrodsburg Road — 8 readers
- Lexington — 6 readers
- South Limestone — 4 readers
- Red Mile Road — 4 readers
- Alexandria Drive — 3 readers
- Versailles Road — 3 readers
- Ruccio Way — 3 readers
- Sports Center Drive — 2 readers
- Alumni Drive — 2 readers
- Newtown Pike — 2 readers
- West Third Street — 2 readers
- South Forbes Road — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Mount Vernon — all on the live map above.
Mount Vernon 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 82 traffic, 2 street, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: Lexington Police Department (27), The Home Depot (2), Flock Safety (1).
Camera activity around Mount Vernon, last 30 days
6 newly reported in our hourly change log for Mount Vernon. Latest change logged Aug 25, 2026.
What’s watching Mount Vernon
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 Mount Vernon — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mount Vernon (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mount Vernon
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Mount Vernon, KY
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Mount Vernon, KY
- 6 license plate readers reported removed near Mount Vernon, KY
What you can do in Mount Vernon
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 Mount Vernon
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).