Atlas · State

Tennessee

What is documented about automated license plate surveillance in Tennessee — and what is still an open question.

Are automated license plate readers used in Tennessee?

Yes. Volunteers have recorded 3,357 automated license plate reader camera locations in Tennessee, across 74 counties. That is a floor, not an inventory — it counts what someone has mapped, not what exists.

Camera data retrieved Aug 15, 2026 · Most recent record Aug 11, 2026

3,357 Camera coordinates 2.8% of the 118,623 we hold nationally. Community-reported, not field-verified by us.
74 Counties with a mapped camera Assigned geometrically from Census county boundaries. A county with no entry has no mapped camera, which is not the same as none.
1 Documented decisions 0 ended, declined, or suspended · 1 adopted, renewed, or expanded.
0 Full dossiers Places researched down to retention, sharing, warrant standard, and audit policy — including the fields that come back unknown.

Known ALPR locations

Coverage incomplete

  • Camera coordinate
  • Jurisdiction record — no camera coordinates held
  • Program ended, declined, or prohibited

3,357 mapped camera coordinates · 42 jurisdiction records · 50 of 50 states have data. Camera coordinates © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Boundaries and roads: US Census, public domain. Roads are drawn for orientation only — a camera near a road is not a claim about which road it watches.

Pinned to Tennessee. Open the national Atlas to compare with neighbouring states.

Who supplies the cameras

Vendor attribution as recorded by OpenStreetMap contributors. Where a contributor did not identify the vendor the record reads “Unspecified” — that is an unrecorded fact, not a vendorless camera.

Vendor Mapped cameras Share
Flock Safety 2,948 87.8%
Motorola Solutions 168 5.0%
Unspecified 114 3.4%
Genetec 60 1.8%
Neology 16 0.5%
Axis Communications 15 0.4%
Axon 15 0.4%
SkyCop 11 0.3%
Rekor 5 0.1%
Leonardo/Elsag 4 0.1%
Hikvision 1 0.0%

Where in Tennessee

3,363 mapped cameras assigned to the county containing them. The 62 remaining counties with at least one mapped camera are in the open data.

  • Shelby 752
  • Knox 270
  • Davidson 254
  • Rutherford 225
  • Washington 218
  • Hamilton 131
  • Wilson 128
  • Sumner 113
  • Williamson 85
  • Sevier 71
  • Sullivan 69
  • Montgomery 67

What governments here have decided

Every decision we hold for Tennessee, most recent first. The Decision Record exists because deployment databases record arrivals and not reversals.

Jurisdiction Decision Date Vendor Sourcing
Springfield Adopted Oct 15, 2024 Flock Safety Reported

Signal

No Signal story yet names Tennessee. That is a gap in our coverage rather than a quiet state — send us what you are seeing.

National developments that apply here

These are not about Tennessee specifically. They govern the cameras in it.

What we don’t know about Tennessee

We hold no researched record for Tennessee deep enough to have produced open questions yet. That is the largest gap on this page.

Help close the gaps.

We hold records for 1 Tennessee jurisdiction. There are far more than that. A single records request from a resident often establishes more than weeks of desk research.

Places in Tennessee

The largest 40 of 78 places we can put on the map. Selecting one centres the map there. A place appearing here says nothing about whether it has cameras — it is a label, and the camera layer is separate and incomplete.