Maryville, Tennessee
Flock Camera Map
Interactive maps of Flock Safety ALPR surveillance camera locations across Maryville & Blount County, Tennessee — including neighborhood entrances, church roads, school routes, and major intersections.
Maintained by MaryvillePrivacy.org · Last updated September 2nd, 2026📍 Maryville Flock Camera Map (Blount County, TN)
Known and observed Flock Safety ALPR camera locations across Maryville, Tennessee, based on public observation and city records. Each pin marks a documented camera location.
💡 Locations are approximate. Your email app will open when clicking “Report.”
Public Safety Concern · Field Documentation · June 2026
⚠️ New Camera Pole on Foothills Mall Drive May Lack Required Roadside Safety Hardware
During the week of June 8, 2026, a newly installed Flock Safety surveillance camera pole was observed and photographed near 955 to 977 Foothills Mall Dr, Maryville, TN 37801, at approximately 35.7526294, -83.9957305. The pole sits close to the roadway and clear zone. From the visible base, it does not appear to have an obvious breakaway slip plate, crash-rated base, guardrail protection, or other roadside safety treatment.
This matters because the City’s own records show how these poles are supposed to be installed. Public records obtained through a Tennessee Public Records Act request (TDOT permit Case No. 590786, prepared on behalf of the Maryville Police Department) specify crash-conscious hardware, including an X-Squared breakaway base and X-Squared slip base rated to MASH-16 / NCHRP 350 criteria. The approved installation detail is documented in the roadside safety section below.
Field Documentation · April 6, 2026
Private Contractor Observed Working on Local Flock Infrastructure
A Dish Network-branded service van and technician were photographed at a Flock Safety camera site in Maryville on April 6, 2026. A Maryville Police Department vehicle was also present. The photographs raise a separate question from camera location: who physically installs and services Flock hardware?
Commercial ALPR Cameras: Maryville and Alcoa →
📂 What the Public Records Actually Show
These investigations go beyond the map — documenting specific Maryville findings revealed through public records, city emails, and Flock’s own training materials.
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🌎 National Flock Camera & ALPR Map
Explore the broader nationwide network of Flock Safety cameras and other automatic license plate readers — useful if you’re traveling outside Maryville and want to see where ALPR systems have been reported along your route.
🗺️ East Tennessee ALPR Coordination Map
This map shows law-enforcement agencies in East Tennessee invited to or coordinated through a Flock Safety “Deep Dive” training event in Sevierville — documented through a Tennessee Public Records Act (TPRA) request.
Agencies on this map attended a regional event where Flock Safety trained officers on its dashboard, data-sharing options, and tools that flag vehicles based on travel history and patterns — not only traditional traffic violations.
Read the full background and documents at the East Tennessee Regional ALPR Transparency Center →
💡 Data source: internal email distribution list from a local agency obtained via TPRA. Locations represent agency headquarters, not camera sites.
📋 When ALPR Access Is Abused
License plate reader access is not only a theoretical privacy concern. A nationwide list maintained by Freedom from Flock – Blount County, TN documents reported cases involving stalking, personal relationships, ex-partners, spouses, and other alleged misuse of law-enforcement surveillance access.
ALPR MISUSE · DOCUMENTED CASES
EAST TENNESSEE
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└── Oak Ridge, TN
└── Officer misuse
├── 23 misconduct counts
└── 18 tied to Flock searches
NEARBY / SOUTHEAST
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├── Shelby County, TN
│ └── Deputy → accused of tracking ex-wife
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├── Richmond County, GA
│ ├── Lieutenant → stalking case
│ ├── Deputy → stalking case
│ ├── Investigator → stalking case
│ └── Deputy → alleged stalking of mistress
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├── Braselton, GA
│ └── Police chief → stalking / ALPR case
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└── Sandy Springs, GA
└── Officer → alleged personal use
and sharing of Flock data
OTHER DOCUMENTED EXAMPLES
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├── Sedgwick, KS
│ └── Police chief → tracked ex-girlfriend
│ └── 228 plate searches
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├── Louisville, KY
│ └── Officer → tracked ex-girlfriend
│ and her friends
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├── Orange City, FL
│ └── Officer → accused of stalking woman
│ using ALPR access
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└── Pennsylvania
└── Officer → tracked estranged wife
and her mother
RECURRING PATTERN
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├── Spouses
├── Ex-spouses
├── Romantic partners
├── Ex-partners
├── Friends and associates
└── Police access → personal surveillance
🗺️ National ALPR Misuse Map
Explore reported incidents geographically. Click a marker to see the person, agency, reported misuse, date, and supporting source.
Map note: Markers represent the city or county associated with each reported incident, not the precise location where the alleged misuse occurred.
📱 DeFlock App – Report Cameras & Plan Camera-Avoiding Routes
The DeFlock web app makes it easy to discover and report automatic license plate readers in your community and offers route mapping to help you avoid known Flock and other surveillance cameras whenever possible.
- Quickly add new ALPR camera sightings to the national map.
- See plate-reader hotspots before driving through Maryville or East Tennessee.
- Generate suggested routes that try to minimize camera hits along the way.
DeFlock is an independent project giving residents practical tools to understand and reduce ALPR surveillance in their daily routes.
🎥 Many Voices, One Surveillance System
Flock Safety and automated license plate readers are being questioned from very different perspectives. Some critics focus on constitutional limits and government power. Others focus on privacy, civil liberties, misuse, roadside safety, or local accountability. These videos show how people can approach the issue from different directions and still arrive at many of the same concerns about mass vehicle surveillance.
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│ FLOCK — A SPECTRUM OF CONCERNS │
│ Different voices. Different concerns. Same technology. │
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FLOCK
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Mass collection of vehicle movements
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┌─────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐
│ CONSTITUTIONAL │ │ CIVIL LIBERTIES │ │ ROADSIDE SAFETY │
│ / 2A VOICES │ │ & PRIVACY │ │ & PERMITTING │
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Government power Ordinary people's Surveillance poles
should have limits. travel becomes still have to follow
searchable data. safety requirements.
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Gun-Rights Voice Who Is Being Tennessee Flock
Against Flock Watched? Install Question
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No warrant? ┌─────────────────┐ Who installed it?
No suspicion? │ NETWORK EFFECT │ Who approved it?
Why collect it? └────────┬────────┘ Was it permitted?
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Individual cameras become
a much larger searchable
surveillance network.
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Centralized Tracking
Systems / Flock
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┌─────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐
│ MISUSE / ERROR │ │ COMMUNITY POWER │
└────────┬────────┘ └────────┬────────┘
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Suspicion or errors Communities can demand
can cause innocent limits, safeguards,
people to be tracked. or removal.
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Colorado Case What Other Cities
Are Doing
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│ THE COMMON THREAD │
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│ Flock is not just a camera. │
│ It creates searchable records │
│ of where people travel. │
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│ The debate is about how much │
│ surveillance power government │
│ should have over people who │
│ are not suspected of a crime. │
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🗽 Constitutional Rights & Government Power
For some critics, the issue begins with a basic principle: government surveillance power should have limits, especially when people are not suspected of a crime. Opposition to Flock is not confined to one political viewpoint.
🔐 Privacy, Civil Liberties & the Network Effect
These videos focus on what happens when routine travel becomes searchable data and individual roadside cameras are connected into much larger surveillance networks.
⚠️ Misuse, Errors & Community Accountability
Surveillance systems do not exist only in theory. Real-world cases show why search standards, auditing, transparency, and meaningful local safeguards matter.
🚧 Roadside Safety & Installation Accountability
Privacy is not the only issue. Equipment installed beside public roads can also raise permitting, engineering, and crash-safety questions.
Section 7 · Constitutional Rights & ALPR Surveillance
⚖️ A Constitutional Problem
Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
What Flock Captures on Every Innocent Driver in Maryville
Flock cameras photograph every vehicle that passes — not just suspects. Building a searchable timeline of where every law-abiding Maryville resident goes, without a warrant or probable cause, is precisely the kind of unchecked government reach the Fourth Amendment was written to prevent.
Court Ruling — Virginia, June 2024
A Norfolk Circuit Court judge ruled that collecting location data from 172 Flock ALPR cameras constitutes a Fourth Amendment search and cannot be used as evidence without a warrant. The case illustrates exactly what Webster warned: authority expands under the banner of good intentions, one license plate at a time.
Maryville residents driving to work, school, or church have committed no crime — yet their movements are logged, timestamped, and searchable indefinitely. No public vote authorized this. No independent audit oversees it.
The “good intention” of reducing crime does not suspend the Constitution.
Section 8 · The Business Behind the Cameras
How Flock Safety Sells Surveillance
A subscription-based SaaS company founded by Garrett Langley — Flock Safety licenses its ALPR network to governments, businesses, and private communities, creating a shared data ecosystem across all customers.
Annual subscription SaaS model — cameras are leased, not sold. All data flows through Flock’s cloud platform. Valued at ~$3.5 billion (2023 Series E).
Who Pays for Access
❓ Facts & Answers About Flock Cameras, Maps & Ghost Vehicles
Common questions about Flock Safety cameras in Maryville, Tennessee and the broader ALPR network, with links to full documentation on MaryvillePrivacy.org.
What is the Flock “Safe List” / ghost vehicle list in Maryville?
Full details, screenshots, and analysis →
How is Flock training police to use travel history and “convoy” tools?
Full training screenshots and explanation →
Is Maryville considering Flock AI drones or “drone as first responder” programs?
Cost ranges, vendor materials, and analysis →
How can I find, report, or avoid Flock cameras in my area?
Who approved Maryville’s Flock cameras and was there a public hearing?
Can I contact city officials about Maryville’s Flock cameras?
This page is part of a local citizen project in Maryville, Tennessee, documenting how Flock Safety ALPR cameras, ghost vehicles, and potential drone programs affect the everyday movement of law-abiding residents going to work, school, and church.
Take Action
✍️ Sign the Blount County Petition
A Blount County resident has started a petition calling for the removal of Flock Safety ALPR cameras county-wide. Signing takes about 30 seconds and adds your name to the public record.
Sign the Petition →Note: Change.org is a third-party platform. MaryvillePrivacy.org is not affiliated with this petition and does not control its content.