Flock & ALPR Cameras in Huntsville, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 72 automated license plate readers in and around Huntsville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 3 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 13 new license plate readers just reported around Huntsville, AL. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Huntsville
Where the cameras are in Huntsville
The readers mapped around Huntsville break down as 35 Motorola Solutions, 28 Flock Safety, 8 Avigilon. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Mastin Lake Road Northwest — 7 readers
- Holmes Avenue Northwest — 6 readers
- Pulaski Pike Northwest — 6 readers
- Sparkman Drive Northwest — 5 readers
- Clinton Avenue West — 4 readers
- University Drive Northwest — 4 readers
- Oakwood Avenue Northwest — 3 readers
- Monroe Street Southwest — 2 readers
- Church Street Northwest — 2 readers
- Washington Street Northwest — 2 readers
- Memorial Parkway Northwest — 2 readers
- Jordan Lane Northwest — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Huntsville — all on the live map above.
Huntsville AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Huntsville AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 112 other agencies.
Huntsville in the Madison County picture
Madison County has 133 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #923 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 397,135 residents and 3,612 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 67 traffic, 3 parking.
Camera activity around Huntsville, last 30 days
15 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Huntsville. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Huntsville
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 Huntsville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Huntsville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Huntsville
What you can do in Huntsville
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 Huntsville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).