Flock & ALPR Cameras in Alabaster, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 43 automated license plate readers in and around Alabaster — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 43 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Alabaster, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 38 of them sit inside Alabaster itself.
The rest sit in Pelham (3), Columbiana (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Alabaster in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Alabaster
The readers mapped around Alabaster break down as 42 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- County Road 17 — 4 readers
- Colonial Promenade Parkway — 3 readers
- Montevallo Road — 3 readers
- Simmsville Road — 3 readers
- Kent Dairy Road — 2 readers
- Warrior Parkway — 2 readers
- Industrial Road — 2 readers
- South Colonial Drive — 2 readers
- Thompson Road — 2 readers
- Butler Road — 2 readers
- Smokey Road — 2 readers
- 1st Avenue West — 2 readers
+ 14 more streets and roads mapped around Alabaster — all on the live map above.
Alabaster AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Alabaster AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 69 other agencies.
Alabaster in the Shelby County picture
Shelby County has 191 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #165 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.7% nationally. That’s across 226,955 residents and 2,496 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
What’s watching Alabaster
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Alabaster — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Alabaster (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Alabaster
- On the agenda: Alabaster meeting — Flock Camera (May 18)
- On the agenda: Alabaster meeting — Flock Camera (May 14)
What you can do in Alabaster
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Alabaster
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).