Flock & ALPR Cameras in Smiths Station, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Smiths Station — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Smiths Station in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 14:59 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Smiths Station
The readers mapped around Smiths Station break down as 3 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Short Walking Path — 1 reader
- Summerville Road — 1 reader
- Lee County Road 240 — 1 reader
- Lee County — 1 reader
Smiths Station 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 3 traffic.
What’s watching Smiths Station
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 Smiths Station — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Smiths Station (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Smiths Station
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 Smiths Station
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).