Flock & ALPR Cameras in Portland, Tennessee
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Portland — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Portland, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 12 of them sit inside Portland itself.
The rest sit in Mitchellville (1), Orlinda (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Portland in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Portland
The readers mapped around Portland break down as 13 Flock Safety, 1 Neology, Inc.. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- US 31W — 3 readers
- SR 52 — 2 readers
- Ronnie McDowell Parkway — 2 readers
- Americas Way — 2 readers
- Austin Peay Highway — 1 reader
- Vaughn Parkway — 1 reader
- South Broadway — 1 reader
- Magnolia Springs Road — 1 reader
- West Main Street — 1 reader
Portland TN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Portland TN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 54 other agencies.
Portland in the Sumner County picture
Sumner County has 102 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #498 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 23.3% nationally. That’s across 200,553 residents and 1,412 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 7.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic.
What’s watching Portland
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 Portland — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Portland (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Portland
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 Portland
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).