Flock & ALPR Cameras in Knoxville, Tennessee
Volunteers have reported 157 automated license plate readers in and around Knoxville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Knoxville is on the record here. Flock cameras were deactivated in Knoxville, TN following a contract lapse.
On the record · Paused
Knoxville is on the record here. Knox County Sheriff Spangler paused expansion of the county's license plate reader program.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 152 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Knoxville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 142 of them sit inside Knoxville itself.
The rest sit in Halls Crossroads (4), Powell (1).
5 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 25 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 25 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 25 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 25 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Knoxville
The readers mapped around Knoxville break down as 112 Flock Safety, 15 Axon Enterprise, 13 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Knoxville — 7 readers
- Hall of Fame Drive — 7 readers
- Merchant Drive — 6 readers
- East Summit Hill Drive — 5 readers
- University Avenue — 5 readers
- Clinton Highway — 4 readers
- Chapman Highway — 3 readers
- North Broadway — 3 readers
- Callahan Drive — 3 readers
- Walker Boulevard — 3 readers
- Neyland Drive — 3 readers
- Millertown Pike — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Knoxville — all on the live map above.
Knoxville TN PD [Inactive] and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Knoxville TN PD [Inactive] appears in the sharing network with connections to 16 other agencies.
Knoxville in the Knox County picture
Knox County has 143 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,037 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 487,401 residents and 2,769 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 11.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 152 traffic, 3 street.
Camera activity around Knoxville, last 30 days
5 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Knoxville. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Knoxville
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 Knoxville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Knoxville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Knoxville
- 5 license plate readers reported removed near Knoxville, TN
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Knoxville, TN
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Knoxville, TN
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Knoxville, TN
What you can do in Knoxville
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 Knoxville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).