Flock & ALPR Cameras in Nashville, Tennessee
Volunteers have reported 40 automated license plate readers in and around Nashville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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Nashville is on the record here. LPR camera signs were taken down in Nashville 'for now' according to local reporting.
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- Sep 22 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Nashville
The readers mapped around Nashville break down as 37 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Nashville — 6 readers
- West Trinity Lane — 5 readers
- Hermitage Plaza — 3 readers
- Centennial Place — 3 readers
- Dickerson Pike — 2 readers
- East Trinity Lane — 2 readers
- Gallatin Pike — 2 readers
- Brick Church Pike — 2 readers
- Venture Circle — 2 readers
- Lischey Avenue — 2 readers
- Envious Lane — 2 readers
- Interstate Boulevard South — 2 readers
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Nashville — all on the live map above.
Nashville in the Davidson County picture
Davidson County has 146 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,360 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 709,846 residents and 2,603 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 11% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 36 traffic.
Camera activity around Nashville, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Nashville. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Nashville
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 Nashville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Nashville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Nashville
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Nashville, TN
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Nashville, TN
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Nashville, TN
- Tennessee Voices for Victims advocating for license plate readers in Nashville
What you can do in Nashville
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 Nashville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).