Flock & ALPR Cameras in Northport, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 45 automated license plate readers in and around Northport — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 46 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Northport, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 34 of them sit inside Northport itself.
The rest sit in Coker (7), Tuscaloosa (3).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Northport
The readers mapped around Northport break down as 46 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Northport — 4 readers
- Shelly Hughes Road — 2 readers
- Highway 140 — 2 readers
- Trade Center Drive — 2 readers
- Main Avenue — 2 readers
- Valley Hill — 2 readers
- McFarland Boulevard — 2 readers
- West Circle — 2 readers
- US 43 — 2 readers
- AL 69 — 2 readers
- 7th Street — 2 readers
- Clear Creek Parkway — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Northport — all on the live map above.
Northport AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Northport AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 35 other agencies.
Northport 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 39 traffic.
Camera activity around Northport, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Northport. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Northport
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 Northport — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Northport (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Northport
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Northport, AL
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Northport, AL
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Northport, AL
- Flock Camera Helps Solve Deadly Northport Hit-and-Run As Network - and Concern - Grows
What you can do in Northport
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 Northport
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).