Flock & ALPR Cameras in Blountville, Tennessee
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Blountville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Blountville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Blountville itself.
The rest sit in Bristol (3).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Bristol TN Police Department (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Blountville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:11 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Blountville
The readers mapped around Blountville break down as 3 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Bristol TN Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Tennessee Ernie Ford Parkway — 3 readers
- Feathers Chapel Road — 1 reader
- SR 394 — 1 reader
Blountville in the Sullivan County picture
Sullivan County has 61 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #779 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 159,693 residents and 1,692 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 17.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Bristol TN Police Department (2).
What’s watching Blountville
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 Blountville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Blountville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Blountville
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 Blountville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).