Flock & ALPR Cameras in Collegedale, Tennessee
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Collegedale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Collegedale is on the record here. Collegedale city council voted to end its Flock license plate camera contract.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Collegedale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 13 of them sit inside Collegedale itself.
The rest sit in Chattanooga (6).
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 Collegedale in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Collegedale
The readers mapped around Collegedale break down as 18 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Apison Pike — 3 readers
- South Lee Highway — 2 readers
- Chesterton Way — 2 readers
- College Drive — 2 readers
- Arbury Way — 2 readers
- University Drive — 1 reader
- Colcord Drive — 1 reader
- Little Debbie Parkway — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
- Ooltewah-Ringold Road — 1 reader
- Wellesley Drive — 1 reader
- Standifer Gap Road — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Collegedale — all on the live map above.
Collegedale TN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Collegedale TN PD runs 6 cameras of its own, has captured 128,433 vehicle records. Its network connects to 49 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Collegedale in the Hamilton County picture
Hamilton County has 117 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #976 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 370,913 residents and 2,665 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic.
Camera activity around Collegedale, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Collegedale. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Collegedale
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 Collegedale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Collegedale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Collegedale
- Collegedale Commissioners vote to end Flock camera contract amid privacy concerns
- Collegedale Police Discontinue Use Of Flock Cameras
- Collegedale Police Department releases statement on discontinuing Flock License Plate Reader (LPR) System
- Collegedale votes to end Flock license plate camera contract
What you can do in Collegedale
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 Collegedale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).