Flock & ALPR Cameras in Germantown, Tennessee
Volunteers have reported 264 automated license plate readers in and around Germantown — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 286 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Germantown, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 86 of them sit inside Germantown itself.
The rest sit in Memphis (160), Collierville (10), Olive Branch (3).
7 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (4), Lowe's (2), The Home Depot (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
27 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Germantown
The readers mapped around Germantown break down as 271 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make, 2 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, Lowe's, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Poplar Avenue — 26 readers
- Wolf River Boulevard — 16 readers
- Forest Hill-Irene Road — 14 readers
- South Shady Grove Road — 10 readers
- Memphis — 10 readers
- Bill Morris Parkway — 9 readers
- Hacks Cross Road — 8 readers
- Park Avenue — 7 readers
- South Germantown Road — 7 readers
- Avron B Fogelman Expressway — 6 readers
- East Shelby Drive — 6 readers
- Germantown — 5 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Germantown — all on the live map above.
Germantown TN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Germantown TN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 135 other agencies.
Germantown in the Shelby County picture
Shelby County has 574 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #351 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 16.4% nationally. That’s across 922,195 residents and 3,719 road miles. By road density that is 0.15 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 246 traffic, 20 area, 9 parking. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (4), Lowe's (2), The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Germantown, last 30 days
26 newly reported in our hourly change log for Germantown. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Germantown
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 Germantown — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Germantown (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Germantown
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Germantown, TN
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Germantown, TN
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Germantown, TN
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Germantown, TN
What you can do in Germantown
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 Germantown
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).