Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ashville, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Ashville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Ashville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Ashville
The readers mapped around Ashville break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- US 231 — 2 readers
- AL 23 — 1 reader
- Heart of Dixie Highway — 1 reader
- St Clair County 26 — 1 reader
- Pine Dale Road — 1 reader
Ashville AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Ashville AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 63 other agencies.
Ashville in the St. Clair County picture
St. Clair County has 79 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #159 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.4% nationally. That’s across 92,903 residents and 1,653 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
What’s watching Ashville
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 Ashville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ashville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Ashville
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 Ashville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).