Flock & ALPR Cameras in Springville, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Springville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Springville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Springville itself.
The rest sit in Odenville (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Springville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:20 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Springville
The readers mapped around Springville break down as 13 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- AL 23 — 3 readers
- Main Street — 2 readers
- Robinson Street — 2 readers
- Crandall Drive — 1 reader
- Springville Station Boulevard — 1 reader
- Marietta Road — 1 reader
- Murphees Valley Road — 1 reader
- State Route 174 — 1 reader
- Whites Mountain Lane — 1 reader
Springville AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Springville AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 6 other agencies.
Springville in the St. Clair County picture
St. Clair County has 79 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #159 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.4% nationally. That’s across 92,903 residents and 1,653 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic, 1 entrance. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
What’s watching Springville
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 Springville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Springville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Springville
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 Springville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).