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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Oak Grove, Tennessee

Volunteers have reported 26 automated license plate readers in and around Oak Grove — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 26 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Oak Grove, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Oak Grove itself.

The rest sit in Johnson City (26).

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

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26
Reported cameras nearby
#32
of 229 Tennessee cities tracked
0.7%
of Tennessee’s reported cameras
Live camera map 26 reported cameras around Oak Grove, 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 Oak Grove

No new reports near Oak Grove in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Oak Grove

The readers mapped around Oak Grove break down as 26 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Bristol Highway — 7 readers
  • Carroll Creek Road — 6 readers
  • North Roan Street — 4 readers
  • Boones Creek Road — 4 readers
  • Boring Ford Road — 2 readers
  • TN 381 — 1 reader
  • Champions Lane — 1 reader
  • Kingsport Highway — 1 reader

Oak Grove in the Washington County picture

Washington County has 164 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #70 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 3.2% nationally. That’s across 134,693 residents and 1,163 road miles. By road density that is 0.14 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.8% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 25 traffic.

Camera activity around Oak Grove, last 30 days

5 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Oak Grove. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.

What’s watching Oak Grove

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

The latest around Oak Grove

What you can do in Oak Grove

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 Oak Grove

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