Flock & ALPR Cameras in Owens Cross Roads, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Owens Cross Roads — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Owens Cross Roads, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Owens Cross Roads itself.
The rest sit in Huntsville (8), Somerville (1).
6 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Owens Cross Roads
The readers mapped around Owens Cross Roads break down as 12 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions, 1 Avigilon. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Heart of Dixie Highway — 5 readers
- Mountain Cove Boulevard — 3 readers
- Memorial Parkway Southwest — 3 readers
- Union Grove Road — 1 reader
- AL 36 — 1 reader
- Wilson Mann Road — 1 reader
- US 431 — 1 reader
- Old Hwy 431 — 1 reader
- Eastern Bypass — 1 reader
Owens Cross Roads in the Madison County picture
Madison County has 133 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #923 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 397,135 residents and 3,612 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic, 3 parking.
What’s watching Owens Cross Roads
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 Owens Cross Roads — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Owens Cross Roads (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Owens Cross Roads
- Justin Lamont Erskine identified as suspect in Owens Cross Roads liquor store burglary
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Owens Cross Roads, AL
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Owens Cross Roads, AL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Owens Cross Roads, AL
What you can do in Owens Cross Roads
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.
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Cameras near Owens Cross Roads
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).