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Surveillance procurement

How Tennessee Bought ALPR

Automated licence-plate readers arrive by a vote. This is the paper trail behind those votes across Tennessee — the original contracts, every renewal and amendment that followed, and the staff reports that were in front of the council when it decided. Where a staff report and the contract it accompanied describe different things, that comparison is set out here with both passages quoted.

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Jurisdictions with a contract on file
2
Contracts and amendments
2023
Earliest contract found
Committed in documents we hold
1 / 17
Portals swept

What we hold, jurisdiction by jurisdiction

JurisdictionPortalFirst contractDocumentsCamerasCommittedFindings
NashvilleLegistar20232

Where we have not found the record

A gap means the record was not found on the jurisdiction's public portal. It is not a statement that the record does not exist, and it is not a statement about whether the jurisdiction operates ALPR.

JurisdictionKindPortalStatus
MemphiscityNo portal foundNot yet swept
KnoxvillecityGranicusNot yet swept
ChattanoogacityGranicusNot yet swept
ClarksvillecitycivicclerkNot yet swept
MurfreesborocitycivicclerkNot yet swept
FranklincityLegistarNot yet swept
JacksoncityNo portal foundNot yet swept
Johnson CitycityCivicWebNot yet swept
BartlettcitycivicclerkNot yet swept
HendersonvillecityNo portal foundNot yet swept
KingsportcityNo portal foundNot yet swept
ColliervillecityNo portal foundNot yet swept
SmyrnacitycivicclerkNot yet swept
ClevelandcitycivicclerkNot yet swept
BrentwoodcityNo portal foundNot yet swept
GermantowncityNo portal foundNot yet swept

Documents are archived copies of what the jurisdiction published, kept because municipal portals do not use permanent links. Every figure shown is either quoted from a document or marked as not stated. A dash means the record does not say, which is never the same as zero.