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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Harpersville, Alabama

Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Harpersville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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Live camera map 2 reported cameras around Harpersville, 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 Harpersville

No new reports near Harpersville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 01:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Harpersville

The readers mapped around Harpersville break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.

Harpersville — 1 reader
US 231;US 280 — 1 reader

Harpersville AL PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Harpersville AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 4 other agencies.

Harpersville 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 1 traffic.

What’s watching Harpersville

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

What you can do in Harpersville

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 Harpersville

Vincent (1) Westover (3) Childersburg (7) Wilsonville (6)

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