Flock & ALPR Cameras in Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around Muscle Shoals — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 3 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Oct 3 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 29 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Muscle Shoals
The readers mapped around Muscle Shoals break down as 19 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 2nd Street — 6 readers
- Avalon Avenue — 5 readers
- West 6th Street — 3 readers
- Woodward Avenue — 2 readers
- Counts Drive — 1 reader
- Fords Way Avenue — 1 reader
- Pasadena Avenue — 1 reader
Muscle Shoals AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Muscle Shoals AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 63 other agencies.
Muscle Shoals in the Colbert County picture
Colbert County has 11 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,422 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 57,648 residents and 1,461 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 51.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 18 traffic, 1 parking.
Camera activity around Muscle Shoals, last 30 days
7 newly reported in our hourly change log for Muscle Shoals. Latest change logged Aug 16, 2026.
What’s watching Muscle Shoals
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 Muscle Shoals — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Muscle Shoals (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Muscle Shoals
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Muscle Shoals, AL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Muscle Shoals, AL
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Muscle Shoals, AL
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Muscle Shoals, AL
What you can do in Muscle Shoals
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 Muscle Shoals
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).