Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lake Purdy, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 28 automated license plate readers in and around Lake Purdy — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 28 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lake Purdy, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Lake Purdy itself.
The rest sit in Hoover (13), Birmingham (5), Brook Highland (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 26 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Axis Communications camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 15 new license plate readers just reported around Lake Purdy, AL. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #LakePurdy
Where the cameras are in Lake Purdy
The readers mapped around Lake Purdy break down as 11 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- US 280 — 4 readers
- Brook Highland Parkway — 3 readers
- Brook Highland Drive — 2 readers
- Cahaba Valley Road — 2 readers
- Brook Highland — 1 reader
- Cahaba Beach Road — 1 reader
Lake Purdy 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 7 traffic.
What’s watching Lake Purdy
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 Lake Purdy — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lake Purdy (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lake Purdy
What you can do in Lake Purdy
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 Lake Purdy
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).