Flock Cameras in Louisville, KY: Locations, Map & Count
As of 13 October 2026, 549 Flock and ALPR cameras are mapped within 10 miles of downtown Louisville (507 tagged Flock Safety), and 908 across the wider Louisville metro, a box roughly 50 miles across, run by 48 operators. See each one on the live map below, which way it faces and its approximate capture zone. Free, no account. BanditKin is the private app that routes around them.
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What makes Louisville different
48 operators, a 45% lead share and 92% bearing coverage — here is what that adds up to around Louisville.
Louisville Metro Police Department is the dominant operator, with 405 of the 908 mapped cameras — 45% of the metro, ahead of Jeffersonville Police Department on 61. That lead share ranks 36th of the 251 metros BanditKin tracks, so Louisville is a concentrated network.
Retail plate readers are part of the picture around Louisville: Lowe's (12). Of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 11 are private.
92% of the mapped cameras around Louisville (839 of 908) carry a facing direction — 103rd of the 251 tracked metros. Bearings are what make camera-aware routing possible, so the higher that share, the more the avoidance layer can do here.
Public records cover 8 agencies around Louisville in the EFF Atlas of Surveillance against 48 operators on the map — the difference between a records project and a mapping project, not a contradiction.
Sheriff's offices are prominent: Bullitt County Sheriff's Office and Floyd County Sheriff's Department sit in the top twelve, alongside municipal forces such as Jeffersonville Police Department, Clarksville Police Department, Jeffersontown Police Department.
Louisville Flock and ALPR cameras by the numbers
What the public data actually shows about plate readers around Louisville, counted from the same map above.
549
Flock & ALPR cameras within 10 miles of downtown Louisville
908
Across the wider Louisville metro (50-mile box)
48
Separate operating agencies on the map
839
Cameras with a recorded facing direction
Read from the live map on 13 October 2026. Since 5 October 2026 the 10-mile count moved from 537 to 549 (+12) and the metro-box count moved from 881 to 908 (+27). The underlying records are OpenStreetMap entries plus community submissions — nobody who operates a camera is obliged to declare it, so these are the documented minimum rather than the full picture. The metro is a box roughly 50 miles across centred on Louisville.
How Louisville compares
Upper third on size among the 251 metro areas tracked, all counted the same way on the same day.
Louisville ranks 61st of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Silver Spring, MD and Boulder, CO, and 52nd by operator count.
Upper third on size; 103rd of 251 on bearing coverage at 92%, and 36th on lead-operator share at 45%.
Mapped ALPR cameras
908 — 61st of 251
Separate operators on the map
48 — 52nd of 251
Cameras per operator
18.9 — 93rd of 251
Largest operator's share
45% — 36th of 251
Share with a recorded bearing
92% — 103rd of 251
Ranked against the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks, every one read from the live map on 13 October 2026. Metro areas are drawn as a box around the city centre, so neighbouring metros can share cameras and these counts must never be added together.
Which departments run the cameras around Louisville
The mapped cameras around Louisville trace back to 48 separate operators. Louisville Metro Police Department accounts for the largest single share.
Louisville Metro Police Department
405 cameras
Jeffersonville Police Department
61 cameras
Clarksville Police Department
24 cameras
Jeffersontown Police Department
22 cameras
St. Matthews Police Department
16 cameras
Shively Police Department
12 cameras
Lowe's
12 cameras
New Albany Police Department
12 cameras
Mount Washington Police Department
10 cameras
Bullitt County Sheriff's Office
9 cameras
Floyd County Sheriff's Department
9 cameras
Middletown Police Department
9 cameras
Shepherdsville Police Department
8 cameras
West Buechel Police Department
8 cameras
Clark County Sheriff's Department
8 cameras
Hurstbourne Police Department
7 cameras
Oldham County Sheriff's Office
7 cameras
Sellersburg Police Department
7 cameras
Indian Hills Police Department
5 cameras
Crestwood Police Department
5 cameras
These are the 20 largest of 48 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (628 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 203 cameras record no operator of any kind.
It isn't all Flock
'Flock' has become shorthand for any plate reader. Around Louisville it is mostly accurate — 99% of the vendor-tagged cameras — but Axis Communications accounts for 7.
Flock Safety
817 cameras
Axis Communications
7 cameras
Motorola Solutions
4 cameras
Leonardo
1 camera
Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 79 of 908 mapped cameras name no manufacturer at all, which makes the actual distribution broader than shown. These count cameras on the map, not purchase orders.
Where they sit, and which way they face
839 of the 908 mapped cameras around Louisville record which way they point, which is what makes routing around them possible.
Most readers sit on a dedicated pole a few metres up, angled at one lane of traffic, with a solar panel above. Where the mount is recorded around Louisville:
On a dedicated pole
243 cameras
On a street lamp
9 cameras
On a post
1 camera
One camera covers one approach, so its heading is what decides which journeys end up recorded. Around Louisville the mapped bearings distribute like this:
Facing south
127 cameras
Facing north
119 cameras
Facing west
111 cameras
Facing east
106 cameras
Facing northeast
105 cameras
Facing southeast
97 cameras
Facing northwest
93 cameras
Facing southwest
81 cameras
Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 65 mapped cameras have no recorded bearing, and 4 are tagged as omnidirectional.
Documented ALPR programs around Louisville
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance documents 8 agencies in the Louisville area with automated license plate readers, from public records and news reports. The map records 48 operators.
Louisville Metro Police Department
The Louisville Metro Police Department has used automated license plate readers since at least 2007.
St. Matthews Police Department
The St. Matthews Police Department plans to install Flock Safety cameras. Vendor: Flock Safety.
Indian Hills Police Department
The Indian Hills Police Department operates 12 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025. Vendor: Flock Safety.
University of Louisville Police Department
The University of Louisville Police Department operates 15 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025. Vendor: Flock Safety.
Jeffersontown Police Department
The Jeffersontown Police Department operates 32 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025. Vendor: Flock Safety.
Shively Police Department
The Shively Police Department operates 15 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025. Vendor: Flock Safety.
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.
Seeing the cameras is free. Avoiding them is the app.
Every camera on this map reads plates from one direction — the cone shows its approximate capture zone. BanditKin's private navigation uses those cones to route around cameras when you ask it to, with a strength slider you control. When a camera-free route doesn't exist, it says so honestly and falls back to the normal route.
This page is part of the Kentucky camera hub, which counts every camera inside the state line rather than by metro box. New to this? Read what ALPR cameras capture, how long it is kept, and who can search it. Not in Louisville? Search the full map by any city.
ALPR camera maps for nearby and related cities: Lexington, KY · Cincinnati, OH · Indianapolis, IN · Dayton, OH · Nashville, TN · Murfreesboro, TN.
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How many Flock cameras are in Louisville?
As of 13 October 2026, 549 Flock and ALPR cameras are mapped within 10 miles of downtown Louisville, 507 of them tagged Flock Safety. Across the wider metro, a box roughly 50 miles across, the map records 908 cameras run by 48 separate operators. That is a documented floor, not a full inventory: cameras appear as people map them, and 79 carry no manufacturer tag at all.
Where are Flock cameras in Louisville?
The live map above shows 908 mapped ALPR cameras around metro Louisville, each with an approximate viewing cone. Positions come from OpenStreetMap and community reports, so coverage may be incomplete — if you know a camera that isn't shown, you can report it directly on the map.
Who operates the ALPR cameras around Louisville?
Louisville Metro Police Department is the largest mapped operator with 405 cameras, ahead of Jeffersonville Police Department's 61. Beyond them the network spreads across 46 other operators. Private operators are part of it: Lowe's (12). The EFF Atlas of Surveillance documents 8 agencies across this area.
Can I avoid Flock cameras when driving in Louisville?
Avoidance runs off recorded bearings, and Louisville has 839 of 908 mapped cameras with one. BanditKin's navigation can route around them: it is opt-in, field-of-view-aware, and has a strength slider you control. Where no camera-free route exists it says so plainly and falls back to the normal route. This is a privacy preference — choosing not to be logged by a commercial surveillance network on public roads — and it works from public camera-location data.
Is this map free? Do I need an account?
Yes, the map is free, and no account is needed. It is built on public data — OpenStreetMap and the EFF Atlas of Surveillance — plus community reports. The BanditKin app adds the private navigation that routes around the cameras.