Flock & ALPR cameras in Murfreesboro, TN

The operator table is headed by Murfreesboro Police Department at 119 cameras (32%), then Smyrna Police Department at 29. Beyond the top of the table it is a long tail: 16 separate operators in all, ranking Murfreesboro 157th of 251 on operator count.

For the thing that actually matters when routing, Murfreesboro is well documented: 352 of its 373 mapped cameras — 94% — record which way they face, ranking 67th of 251 on bearing coverage.

Public records cover 4 agencies around Murfreesboro in the EFF Atlas of Surveillance against 16 operators on the map — the difference between a records project and a mapping project, not a contradiction.

Sheriff's offices are prominent: Rutherford County Sheriff's Office and Wilson County Sheriff's Office sit in the top twelve, alongside municipal forces such as Smyrna Police Department, La Vergne Police Department, Shelbyville Police Department.

Read from the live map on 3 September 2026. 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 Murfreesboro.

Murfreesboro ranks 117th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Buffalo, NY and Augusta, GA, and 157th by operator count.

Its cameras-per-operator figure of 23.3 ranks 59th, its lead operator's 32% share ranks 84th, and its 94% bearing coverage ranks 67th — all of 251.

Ranked against the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks, every one read from the live map on 3 September 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.

These are all 16 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (258 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 114 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 7 of 373 mapped cameras name no manufacturer at all, which makes the actual distribution broader than shown. These count cameras on the map, not purchase orders.

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 Murfreesboro:

One camera covers one approach, so its heading is what decides which journeys end up recorded. Around Murfreesboro the mapped bearings distribute like this:

Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 20 mapped cameras have no recorded bearing, and 1 is tagged as omnidirectional.

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.

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