Flock & ALPR Cameras in Plainview, Tennessee
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Plainview — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Plainview, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Plainview itself.
The rest sit in Corryton (2).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Plainview in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Plainview
The readers mapped around Plainview break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2026; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Tazewell Pike — 3 readers
- Washington Pike — 2 readers
- Corryton Road — 1 reader
- Roberts Road — 1 reader
Plainview TN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Plainview TN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 14 other agencies.
Plainview in the Union County picture
Union County has 2 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,773 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 20,141 residents and 729 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 75% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
What’s watching Plainview
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 Plainview — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Plainview (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Plainview
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 Plainview
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).