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Flock & ALPR Cameras in East Chattanooga, Tennessee

Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around East Chattanooga — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of East Chattanooga, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside East Chattanooga itself.

The rest sit in Chattanooga (7).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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7
Reported cameras nearby
#110
of 229 Tennessee cities tracked
0.2%
of Tennessee’s reported cameras
Live camera map 7 reported cameras around East Chattanooga, Tennessee
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near East Chattanooga

No new reports near East Chattanooga in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:34 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in East Chattanooga

The readers mapped around East Chattanooga break down as 5 Motorola Solutions, 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • Dodson Avenue — 3 readers
  • SR 17 — 1 reader
  • Highway 58 — 1 reader
  • TN 153 — 1 reader
  • Kings Point Road — 1 reader

East Chattanooga 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 4 highway, 2 traffic.

Camera activity around East Chattanooga, last 30 days

1 newly reported in our hourly change log for East Chattanooga. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.

What’s watching East Chattanooga

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 East Chattanooga — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to East Chattanooga (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around East Chattanooga

What you can do in East Chattanooga

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.

Cameras near East Chattanooga

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).