Flock & ALPR Cameras in Central, Tennessee
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Central — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Central, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Central itself.
The rest sit in Elizabethton (5), Johnson City (4), Watauga (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Central in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Central
The readers mapped around Central break down as 11 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- West Elk Avenue — 2 readers
- Watauga Road — 1 reader
- Mary Patton Highway — 1 reader
- Sabine Street — 1 reader
- Milligan Highway — 1 reader
- Woodlyn Road — 1 reader
- East Main Street — 1 reader
- West 4th Avenue — 1 reader
- Preston Road — 1 reader
- King Springs Road — 1 reader
Central in the Carter County picture
Carter County has 28 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #526 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 24.6% nationally. That’s across 56,462 residents and 1,001 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 22.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
What’s watching Central
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 Central — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Central (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Central
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 Central
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).