Flock & ALPR Cameras in Chelsea, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Chelsea — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 22 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Chelsea
The readers mapped around Chelsea break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- US 280 — 3 readers
- County Road 36 — 2 readers
- Forest Lakes Parkway — 2 readers
- County Road 11 — 1 reader
- Chelsea — 1 reader
Chelsea 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 6 traffic.
Camera activity around Chelsea, last 30 days
6 newly reported, 7 removed in our hourly change log for Chelsea. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching Chelsea
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 Chelsea — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Chelsea (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Chelsea
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Chelsea, AL
- 7 license plate readers reported removed near Chelsea, AL
What you can do in Chelsea
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 Chelsea
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).