Flock & ALPR Cameras in Opelika, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 34 automated license plate readers in and around Opelika — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Opelika
The readers mapped around Opelika break down as 30 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2021; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Opelika — 4 readers
- Gateway Drive — 3 readers
- Frederick Road — 3 readers
- Pepperell Parkway — 3 readers
- Tiger Town Parkway — 1 reader
- Honeycomb Road — 1 reader
- Samford Avenue — 1 reader
- Morning Glory Drive — 1 reader
- Interstate Drive — 1 reader
- Geneva Street — 1 reader
- Lakeview Drive — 1 reader
- Lafayette Parkway — 1 reader
+ 11 more streets and roads mapped around Opelika — all on the live map above.
Opelika AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Opelika AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 25 other agencies.
Opelika in the Lee County picture
Lee County has 88 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #529 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 24.7% nationally. That’s across 177,663 residents and 1,997 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 31 traffic.
Camera activity around Opelika, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Opelika. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching Opelika
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 Opelika — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Opelika (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Opelika
What you can do in Opelika
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 Opelika
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).