Flock & ALPR Cameras in Thorsby, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Thorsby — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Thorsby, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Thorsby itself.
The rest sit in Maplesville (1).
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 Thorsby in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Thorsby
The readers mapped around Thorsby break down as 3 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- AL 22 — 2 readers
- AL 145 — 1 reader
- County Road 29 — 1 reader
Thorsby in the Chilton County picture
Chilton County has 16 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #883 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 45,500 residents and 1,307 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 39.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Thorsby
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 Thorsby — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Thorsby (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Thorsby
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 Thorsby
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).