Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lake View, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Lake View — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lake View, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Lake View itself.
The rest sit in Bessemer (2), Woodstock (2).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Lake View in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:01 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lake View
The readers mapped around Lake View break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Woodstock — 2 readers
- Rock Mountain Lake Road — 2 readers
- Eastern Valley Road — 1 reader
Lake View in the Tuscaloosa County picture
Tuscaloosa County has 118 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #505 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 23.6% nationally. That’s across 234,036 residents and 3,033 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Lake View, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lake View. Latest change logged Aug 18, 2026.
What’s watching Lake View
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 View — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lake View (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lake View
What you can do in Lake View
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.
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Cameras near Lake View
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).