Flock & ALPR Cameras in Smoke Rise, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Smoke Rise — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Smoke Rise, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Smoke Rise itself.
The rest sit in Hayden (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Smoke Rise in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 23, 09:40 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Smoke Rise
The readers mapped around Smoke Rise break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Aug 2025.
- Skyline Drive — 1 reader
Smoke Rise in the Blount County picture
Blount County has 37 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #347 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 16.2% nationally. That’s across 59,292 residents and 1,389 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 23.3% of counties nationally.
What’s watching Smoke Rise
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 Smoke Rise — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Smoke Rise (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Smoke Rise
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 Smoke Rise
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).