Flock & ALPR Cameras in Highland Lakes, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Highland Lakes — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Highland Lakes, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Highland Lakes itself.
The rest sit in Chelsea (4), Hoover (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 21 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Highland Lakes
The readers mapped around Highland Lakes break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Forest Lakes Boulevard — 2 readers
- Highland Lakes Road — 2 readers
- Highland Lakes Drive — 2 readers
- Greystone Crest — 1 reader
Highland Lakes 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 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Highland Lakes, last 30 days
4 removed in our hourly change log for Highland Lakes. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.
What’s watching Highland Lakes
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 Highland Lakes — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Highland Lakes (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Highland Lakes
- 4 license plate readers reported removed near Highland Lakes, AL
- 5 new license plate readers reported around Highland Lakes, AL
What you can do in Highland Lakes
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 Highland Lakes
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).