Flock & ALPR Cameras in Decatur, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Decatur — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Decatur
The readers mapped around Decatur break down as 16 Flock Safety, 5 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- 8th Street Southeast — 4 readers
- Longview Drive Southwest — 2 readers
- Moulton Street West — 2 readers
- Point Mallard Road Southeast — 2 readers
- 14th Street Southwest — 2 readers
- US Highway 31 — 1 reader
- Huntsville-Decatur Highway — 1 reader
- Bee Line Highway — 1 reader
- Beltline Road Southwest — 1 reader
- Memorial Drive Southwest — 1 reader
- 2nd Street Southwest — 1 reader
- Gordon Drive — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Decatur — all on the live map above.
Decatur AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Decatur AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 55 other agencies.
Decatur in the Morgan County picture
Morgan County has 54 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #646 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 123,742 residents and 1,404 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic, 3 parking.
What’s watching Decatur
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 Decatur — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Decatur (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Decatur
- How Decatur Uses License Plate Readers to Support Public Safety
- Red Bay halts use of Flock cameras
- License plate readers vital in helping Decatur and Hartselle police solve crime
- License plate reader leads to rescue of alleged kidnapping victim in Hartselle
What you can do in Decatur
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 Decatur
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).