Flock & ALPR Cameras in Flint City, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Flint City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Flint City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Flint City itself.
The rest sit in Decatur (13), Hartselle (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Decatur Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Flint City
The readers mapped around Flint City break down as 13 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Decatur Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Danville Road Southwest — 2 readers
- Spring Avenue Southwest — 2 readers
- Central Parkway Southwest — 2 readers
- Beltline Road Southwest — 2 readers
- 6th Avenue Southeast — 1 reader
- Cedar Lake Road Southeast — 1 reader
- Lenwood Road Southeast — 1 reader
- 2nd Avenue — 1 reader
- Cedar Lake Road — 1 reader
Flint City 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 12 traffic. Operators named on the record: Decatur Police Department (1).
What’s watching Flint City
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 Flint City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Flint City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Flint City
- Flint City Council discusses the use of Flock cameras and plans for program to expand
- Tensions boil over at Flint City Council meeting
- Flint City Council committee passes expansion of license plate readers
What you can do in Flint City
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 Flint City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).