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Kentucky has 1,881 mapped plate readers. 1,828 carry the Flock Safety tag. Most don't say who runs them.
Louisville has the most (330), then Lexington-Fayette (194) and Louisville (139). The first Flock-tagged one was mapped Nov 11, 2024. A plate reader keeps a record of each car that passes.
See who runs them · Cameras in Kentucky · What is a Flock camera? · Flock cameras in the US · Plate reader maps compared
Flock cameras in Kentucky by city
A city links to its own page once enough readers are mapped there.
Plate readers mapped in Kentucky each month
Plate readers of any maker added to the map each month, not only Flock-tagged ones. Lighter bars are estimates from the first-mapped dates of current points.
CamsAhead started its daily change log on October 22, 2026. How the map changed.
Flock-tagged readers first mapped each month
Each row counts the Flock-tagged readers first mapped that month, newest first. Months with none are left out. Each one carries the date it was first mapped.
| Month | First mapped that month | Top cities |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | 38 | 6 in Southgate and 5 in Mount Washington |
| Sep 2026 | 58 | 23 in Louisville and 3 in Bowling Green |
| Aug 2026 | 169 | 39 in Louisville and 16 in Lexington-Fayette |
| Jul 2026 | 181 | 43 in Louisville and 8 in Lexington-Fayette |
| Jun 2026 | 115 | 37 in Louisville and 8 in Lexington-Fayette |
| May 2026 | 128 | 16 in Elizabethtown and 14 in Lexington-Fayette |
| Apr 2026 | 95 | 32 in Louisville and 8 in Lexington-Fayette |
| Mar 2026 | 110 | 32 in Louisville and 9 in Lexington-Fayette |
| Feb 2026 | 64 | 24 in Louisville and 6 in Lexington-Fayette |
| Jan 2026 | 101 | 22 in Lexington-Fayette and 21 in Louisville |
| Dec 2025 | 158 | 52 in Louisville and 10 in Glasgow |
| Nov 2025 | 114 | 17 in Louisville and 6 in Henderson |
Who runs the Flock cameras in Kentucky
Most don't say who runs them. The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists 58 agencies in Kentucky that use plate readers.
- Lexington Police Department 60
- Louisville Metro Police Department 58
- Private operators, not named 36
- Owensboro Police Dept. 13
- McCracken County Sheriffs Office 8
- DHL 7
- CVG Airport 6
- Nicholasville Police Department 5
- PaducahPD 3
- Planned-Owensboro Police Dept. 3
Plate reader law in Kentucky
| Topic | Kentucky |
|---|---|
| Status | Law |
| Law | KRS 189.632 (2026 Ky. Acts ch. 71, § 1, eff. July 15, 2026) |
| What it does | Makes plate-reader use unlawful except for listed purposes (parking, secured areas, public safety, police and commercial-vehicle work, tolls), caps retention for most uses and limits sharing. |
| How long it is kept | 90 days for most users; police, public-agency and Transportation Cabinet data kept for their listed purposes follows the agency's retention policy (KRS 189.632(4)(a)-(b)) |
| Who it can be shared with | Not sold, shared, accessed or transferred for any other purpose, except to law enforcement or its contractors, by subpoena, to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, insurers and lenders for listed purposes (KRS 189.632(4)(d)) |
| Public records law | Kentucky Open Records Act, KRS 61.870 to 61.884 |
| Checked |
See Kentucky plate reader law next to the other states.
Flock cameras in Kentucky: questions
How many Flock cameras are in Kentucky?
1,828 plate readers tagged Flock Safety are on the map in Kentucky, as of November 7, 2026. The real number may be higher or lower: the map shows only the cameras mapped so far.
Which cities in Kentucky have the most Flock cameras?
By mapped count: Louisville (330), Lexington-Fayette (194) and Louisville (139). The city list on this page shows each city with a Flock-tagged reader.
Is each mapped camera still there?
Not always. A point shows where someone mapped a camera. 6 of the 1,828 carry a date when a volunteer last checked them on the ground.
Kentucky's plate reader data
From OpenStreetMap, under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. A free copy goes to anyone who asks: how it is made and how to ask.
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2,128 cameras listed or mapped in Kentucky so far.
Sources and updates
How this page was made: CamsAhead writes each page type once, then fills it with this place's data from the sources below.
- OpenStreetMap contributors: plate readers, data as of Nov 7, 2026; ODbL 1.0
- EFF Atlas of Surveillance: agencies that use plate readers, data as of Aug 2026; CC BY 4.0
- KRS 189.632 (2026 Ky. Acts ch. 71, § 1, eff. July 15, 2026): plate reader law, checked Oct 25, 2026
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Open Government Guide: public records law, checked Oct 25, 2026
Plate reader points are mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers (data as of November 7, 2026).
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