Flock & ALPR Cameras in Columbiana, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Columbiana — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Columbiana, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Columbiana itself.
The rest sit in Chelsea (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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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 Columbiana
The readers mapped around Columbiana break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Old Highway 25 — 1 reader
- Bule Road — 1 reader
- Columbiana — 1 reader
Columbiana AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Columbiana AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 9 other agencies.
Columbiana 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 2 traffic.
Camera activity around Columbiana, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 5 removed in our hourly change log for Columbiana. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Columbiana
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 Columbiana — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Columbiana (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Columbiana
What you can do in Columbiana
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.
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Cameras near Columbiana
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).