Flock & ALPR Cameras in Montevallo, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Montevallo — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Montevallo, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 14 of them sit inside Montevallo itself.
The rest sit in Wilton (1).
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 Montevallo in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 03:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Montevallo
The readers mapped around Montevallo break down as 16 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- Middle Street — 2 readers
- Spring Creek Road — 2 readers
- AL 25 — 2 readers
- Salem Road — 2 readers
- Montevallo Road — 2 readers
- County Road 73 — 2 readers
- AL 25;AL 155 — 2 readers
- West Ashby Road — 1 reader
- County Road 22 — 1 reader
Montevallo AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Montevallo AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 41 other agencies.
Montevallo 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 4 traffic.
What’s watching Montevallo
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 Montevallo — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Montevallo (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Montevallo
What you can do in Montevallo
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 Montevallo
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).