Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sweetwater, Tennessee
Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Sweetwater — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sweetwater, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 14 of them sit inside Sweetwater itself.
The rest sit in Niota (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
4 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Sweetwater
The readers mapped around Sweetwater break down as 19 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- US 11 — 6 readers
- Oakland Road — 5 readers
- SR 68 — 4 readers
- SR 322 — 1 reader
- Lee Highway — 1 reader
- Old Hwy 68 — 1 reader
- Sweetwater Vonore Road — 1 reader
Sweetwater TN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Sweetwater TN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 15 other agencies.
Sweetwater in the Monroe County picture
Monroe County has 28 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #380 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 17.7% nationally. That’s across 47,054 residents and 1,722 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 33.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 13 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
Camera activity around Sweetwater, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Sweetwater. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Sweetwater
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 Sweetwater — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sweetwater (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sweetwater
What you can do in Sweetwater
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 Sweetwater
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).