Tennessee · SD
Flock hosts a transparency portal for this agency at transparency.flocksafety.com/blount-county-tn-so. Everything below is what that page publishes, read against the 1438 other portals in New Mexico, Texas and Arizona. A portal is a rolling 30-day window with no history: the figures are true of the day they were read and cannot be added up.
Not yet read at source by this project. These figures come from EyesOnFlock, an independent aggregator, as of 2026-09-04. Treat them as a second-hand reading: they are good enough to compare portals and to raise a question, and not good enough to quote as this department’s own words. The link above is the department’s page.
What the portal publishes
The template offers five headline figures. This agency leaves 2 blank: vehicles detected, who it shares with. A blank is a choice, not a zero.
Traffic enforcement, harassment or intimidation, use based solely on a protected class (race, sex, religion, etc.), and personal use are all prohibited. These cameras are not traffic-enforcement devices — they are not used to issue speeding or red-light citations. They may never be used to harass, intimidate, or surveil a person, to target anyone based solely on a protected characteristic, or for any personal reason whatsoever, including looking up a family member's, friend's, or one's own vehicle. The single most important guardrail is this: every search must have a bona fide investigative reason. Our system requires the deputy to enter a justification an auditor can independently verify — the type of crime or investigation and a case or incident number tying the search to real police work. Vague entries like "investigation" or "intel" are unacceptable and are treated as improper use. We review these entries frequently, and we update our practices often to stay ahead of both technology and potential gaps in practice or policy.
Flock’s template offers five: immigration enforcement, traffic enforcement, harassment or intimidation, use based solely on a protected class, and personal use. Comparing portals is the only way to see which agency edited that list, because a single portal reads as though its list were the standard one.
Each line below is a difference between this portal and the template or the norm across three states. None of them is a finding about the department: they are the questions the page itself raises, and the department can answer any of them in a sentence.
This portal among the others
What a portal cannot tell you is what the department signed. For one agency in these three states this project holds the contracts, the statement of work, the drone agreement, the council minutes and three radio broadcasts, and reads them against the portal line by line: Las Cruces, New Mexico. The pattern that read found - a camera count defined to exclude the video cameras, a withheld search audit, a sharing list that stops at the state line while the contract does not - is what the comparisons on the map test against every other portal.