Alabama · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ballplay, Alabama

Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Ballplay — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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Reported cameras nearby

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of 256 Alabama cities tracked

0.1%

of Alabama’s reported cameras

Live camera map 3 reported cameras around Ballplay, Alabama

Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →

Camera Watch Recently reported near Ballplay

No new reports near Ballplay in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:50 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Ballplay

The readers mapped around Ballplay break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Nov 2025.

County Road 19 — 2 readers
Centre Road — 1 reader

Ballplay in the Etowah County picture

Etowah County has 57 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #439 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 20.5% nationally. That’s across 103,208 residents and 1,577 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 17.1% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.

What’s watching Ballplay

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 Ballplay — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ballplay (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Ballplay

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 Ballplay

Hokes Bluff (2) Leesburg (2) Centre (4) Glencoe (7)

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).