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Flock Cameras in Kentucky: Map, Locations & Count
As of 13 October 2026, 2,026 Flock and ALPR cameras are mapped inside Kentucky's borders (1,772 tagged Flock Safety), run by 178 operators. Around Covington the map records 1,161, the most of any KY metro. See every camera on the live map below, which way it faces and its approximate capture zone. Free, no account.
Kentucky's network is moderately concentrated: Louisville Metro Police Department runs 400 of the state's mapped cameras (20%), and the remaining 80% are split across 177 other agencies and businesses. Unlike metro-area counts, this figure is counted inside the state line, so nothing from neighbouring states leaks in. 485 of the 2,026 cameras carry no operator at all, so the operator shares above are shares of the attributed cameras. Since 5 October 2026 the in-state count moved from 1,908 to 2,026 (+118).
Open the live camera mapWhich Kentucky cities have Flock cameras?
What the public map records around each Kentucky metro on 13 October 2026.
Covington
1,161 cameras
908 cameras
355 cameras
Owensboro
75 cameras
Bowling Green
48 cameras
Louisville, Lexington have full pages with operator, vendor and direction breakdowns; the other metros are covered by the live map. Bounding-box counts around each city centre — good for ranking metros, wrong for summing. The only clean state total is the polygon-counted figure in the headline.
The largest ALPR operators in Kentucky
Kentucky's largest ALPR operators, counted inside the state line.
Louisville Metro Police Department
400 cameras
Lexington Police Department
170 cameras
Elizabethtown Police Department
51 cameras
Jeffersonville Police Department
32 cameras
Lowe's
29 cameras
Paducah Police Department
23 cameras
Jeffersontown Police Department
22 cameras
Owensboro Police Department
19 cameras
There is a clear leader — Louisville Metro Police Department, 400 cameras — and then a long, flat tail of 177 other operators. Retail and private operators show up in the top twelve (Lowe's), which is worth knowing: those cameras are not run by any police agency.
Operator attribution comes from OpenStreetMap tagging where recorded and otherwise from the jurisdiction a camera sits in — a strong signal, not a confirmed record. 1,325 of the 2,026 cameras here carry an inferred operator.
It isn't all Flock in Kentucky
The vendor mix behind the state's plate readers.
Flock Safety
1,772 cameras
Motorola Solutions
9 cameras
Axis Communications
7 cameras
Rekor
2 cameras
Leonardo
2 cameras
1,772 of 1,796 vendor-recorded cameras in Kentucky are Flock Safety. Motorola Solutions is the main non-Flock vendor with 9. Unrecorded vendor: 230.
Mounts recorded for Kentucky: pole (562), street lamp (29), gantry (1), post (1). Bearing coverage is 93% — 1,879 cameras have a facing direction on the map, and those are the ones the avoidance layer can actually work with.
Documented ALPR programs in Kentucky
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance documents 58 agencies in Kentucky with automated license plate readers, from public records and news reports. The map records 178 operators — the gap between the two is the difference between a records project and a mapping project, not a contradiction.
Lexington Police Department — Fayette County
Lexington Police Department uses automated license plate readers. Vendor: Flock Safety.
Kentucky State Police — Franklin County
The Kentucky State Police uses automated license plate readers.
Louisville Metro Police Department — Jefferson County
The Louisville Metro Police Department has used automated license plate readers since at least 2007.
Boone County Sheriff's Office — Boone County
The Boone County Sheriff's Office has used automated license plate readers since 2012.
Paducah Police Department — McCracken County
The Paducah Police Department has used automated license plate readers since 2018.
Versailles Police Department — Woodford County
The Versailles Police Department installed 18 Flock Safety automated license plate readers in early 2023. Vendor: Flock Safety.
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.
Kentucky ALPR questions
How many Flock cameras are in Kentucky?
As of 13 October 2026, 2,026 Flock and ALPR cameras are mapped inside Kentucky's borders, 1,772 of them tagged Flock Safety, run by 178 operators. The largest clusters are around Covington, Louisville, Lexington. That is a documented floor, not a full inventory: cameras appear as people map them.
Which cities in Kentucky have Flock cameras?
The largest clusters are around Covington (1,161), Louisville (908), Lexington (355), Owensboro (75), Bowling Green (48). Smaller KY towns appear on the live map too — these are simply the biggest metro areas.
Who operates ALPR cameras in Kentucky?
The lead operator is Louisville Metro Police Department at 400 cameras, but it holds only 20% of the state; the rest is split among 177 other agencies and businesses.
Are all the plate readers in Kentucky made by Flock?
No. Flock Safety is tagged on 1,772 of 1,796 vendor-recorded cameras (99%); Motorola Solutions accounts for 9, and 230 cameras have no vendor recorded at all. 'Flock camera' is the common name, but the map covers every ALPR it can find.
Can I avoid Flock cameras when driving in Kentucky?
BanditKin's navigation offers opt-in, field-of-view-aware camera avoidance with a strength slider, using the 1,879 Kentucky cameras that have a recorded facing direction. If no camera-free route exists it says so and falls back to the normal route. Preferring not to be logged by a commercial surveillance network is a privacy preference — the app uses public camera-location data.