Flock & ALPR Cameras in Dayton, Tennessee
Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Dayton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Dayton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Dayton
The readers mapped around Dayton break down as 7 Genetec, 7 Flock Safety, 4 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- Rhea County Highway — 7 readers
- US 27 — 4 readers
- Back Valley Road — 2 readers
- 3rd Avenue — 2 readers
- Dayton — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
- Delaware Avenue — 1 reader
- Dayton Mountain Highway — 1 reader
Dayton TN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Dayton TN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 62 other agencies.
Dayton in the Rhea County picture
Rhea County has 30 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #137 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 6.4% nationally. That’s across 33,299 residents and 988 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic.
What’s watching Dayton
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 Dayton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Dayton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Dayton
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 Dayton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).