Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bean Station, Tennessee
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Bean Station — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bean Station, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Bean Station itself.
The rest sit in Russellville (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Bean Station in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Bean Station
The readers mapped around Bean Station break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- St Clair Road — 1 reader
- Lee Highway — 1 reader
Bean Station in the Grainger County picture
Grainger County has 5 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,350 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 23,929 residents and 731 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 53.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Bean Station
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 Bean Station — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bean Station (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Bean Station
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 Bean Station
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).