Flock & ALPR Cameras in Margaret, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Margaret — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Margaret, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Margaret itself.
The rest sit in Odenville (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Margaret in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Margaret
The readers mapped around Margaret break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Sanie Road — 3 readers
- Brookhaven Drive — 3 readers
- St Clair County Road 12 — 1 reader
Margaret AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Margaret AL PD runs 6 cameras of its own, has logged 29 plate-database searches, has captured 34,180 vehicle records. Its network connects to 229 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Adamsville AL PD, Addison AL PD, AL - Troy University - Insight, Alabama Department of Corrections, Alabama Department of Revenue, Alabama Department of Transportation, Alabama Drug Enforcement Task Force Region G, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA).
Margaret in the St. Clair County picture
St. Clair County has 79 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #159 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.4% nationally. That’s across 92,903 residents and 1,653 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
What’s watching Margaret
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 Margaret — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Margaret (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Margaret
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What you can do in Margaret
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 Margaret
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).