Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sylacauga, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Sylacauga — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Sylacauga
The readers mapped around Sylacauga break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West Fort Williams Street — 2 readers
- North Main Avenue — 2 readers
- Oldfield Road — 1 reader
- US 280 — 1 reader
- Rockford Highway — 1 reader
- North Broadway Avenue — 1 reader
AL - Sylacauga PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, AL - Sylacauga PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 38 other agencies.
Sylacauga in the Talladega County picture
Talladega County has 32 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #744 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 81,170 residents and 2,021 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 34.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
Camera activity around Sylacauga, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Sylacauga. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Sylacauga
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 Sylacauga — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sylacauga (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sylacauga
- Flock camera concerns presented before Sylacauga City Council
- Second flock camera damaged in Sylacauga, sparking privacy debate
- Sylacauga police warn after two Flock cameras deliberately damaged
What you can do in Sylacauga
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 Sylacauga
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).