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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Simpsonville, Kentucky

Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Simpsonville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Simpsonville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Simpsonville itself.

The rest sit in Louisville (11).

4 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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20
Reported cameras nearby
#26
of 178 Kentucky cities tracked
1%
of Kentucky’s reported cameras
Live camera map 20 reported cameras around Simpsonville, Kentucky
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Simpsonville

No new reports near Simpsonville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Simpsonville

The readers mapped around Simpsonville break down as 20 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Locust Creek Boulevard — 3 readers
  • Shelbyville Road — 3 readers
  • Shelby County — 2 readers
  • Polo Run Lane — 2 readers
  • Simpsonville-Buck Creek Road — 1 reader
  • Polo Fields Lane — 1 reader
  • Sycamore Ridge Drive — 1 reader
  • Flat Rock Road — 1 reader
  • Champions Way — 1 reader
  • Todds Point Road — 1 reader
  • Rolling Ridge Way — 1 reader
  • Lacewood Way — 1 reader

+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Simpsonville — all on the live map above.

Simpsonville KY PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Simpsonville KY PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 10 other agencies.

Simpsonville in the Shelby County picture

Shelby County has 27 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #433 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 20.2% nationally. That’s across 48,599 residents and 664 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.4% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 19 traffic.

Camera activity around Simpsonville, last 30 days

9 newly reported in our hourly change log for Simpsonville. Latest change logged Aug 26, 2026.

What’s watching Simpsonville

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 Simpsonville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Simpsonville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Simpsonville

What you can do in Simpsonville

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.

Cameras near Simpsonville

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).