Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bluff City, Tennessee
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Bluff City — 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 Bluff City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Bluff City itself.
The rest sit in Johnson City (2).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Bluff City
The readers mapped around Bluff City break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Bristol Highway — 2 readers
- Indian Creek Road — 1 reader
- US 19E — 1 reader
Bluff City 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 2 traffic, 1 street.
What’s watching Bluff City
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 Bluff City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bluff City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bluff City
- Red Bluff city leaders discuss pros/cons of license plate readers
- Red Bluff City Council Approves Police License Plate Reader Program
What you can do in Bluff City
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 Bluff City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).