Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cookeville, Tennessee
Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around Cookeville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Cookeville
The readers mapped around Cookeville break down as 14 Flock Safety, 8 of unrecorded make, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Interstate Drive — 3 readers
- East Spring Street — 3 readers
- South Willow Avenue — 2 readers
- Neal Street — 2 readers
- Cherry Creek Road — 2 readers
- Burgess Falls Road — 1 reader
- 3395 Ditty Road — 1 reader
- Tennessee Avenue — 1 reader
- West Jackson Street — 1 reader
- West Broad Street — 1 reader
- North Dixie Avenue — 1 reader
- East Veterans Drive — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Cookeville — all on the live map above.
Cookeville TN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cookeville TN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 106 other agencies.
Cookeville in the Putnam County picture
Putnam County has 32 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #746 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 81,366 residents and 1,397 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 26.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic, 6 street.
Camera activity around Cookeville, last 30 days
3 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Cookeville. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Cookeville
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 Cookeville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cookeville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cookeville
- Democracy on display at Cookeville City Hall
- On the agenda: Cookeville meeting — Flock Safety (Sep 17)
- Cookeville council considers Flock camera contract
- Cookeville resident questions use of Flock cameras
What you can do in Cookeville
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 Cookeville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).