Flock & ALPR Cameras in Franklin, Tennessee
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Franklin — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Franklin, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 14 of them sit inside Franklin itself.
The rest sit in Brentwood (2).
1 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 1 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Franklin
The readers mapped around Franklin break down as 14 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Riverside Drive — 2 readers
- Oak Meadow Drive — 2 readers
- West Main Street — 1 reader
- South Springs Drive — 1 reader
- Southall Road — 1 reader
- Galleria Boulevard — 1 reader
- Clovercroft Road — 1 reader
- Long Lane — 1 reader
- Echo Lane — 1 reader
- Alpine Court — 1 reader
- Frazier Drive — 1 reader
- Liberty Boulevard — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Franklin — all on the live map above.
Franklin TN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Franklin TN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 4 other agencies.
Franklin in the Williamson County picture
Williamson County has 49 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,411 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 254,609 residents and 1,801 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 22.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Franklin, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Franklin. Latest change logged Aug 26, 2026.
What’s watching Franklin
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 Franklin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Franklin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Franklin
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Franklin, TN
- Why Watertown, Franklin and dozens more Tennessee communities want license plate readers
What you can do in Franklin
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 Franklin
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).