Flock & ALPR Cameras in Attalla, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Attalla — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Attalla, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Attalla itself.
The rest sit in Rainbow City (2), Gadsden (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Attalla in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Attalla
The readers mapped around Attalla break down as 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- US 11 — 1 reader
- US 278;US 431 — 1 reader
- Gilbert Ferry Road Southwest — 1 reader
- Gilbert Ferry Road Southeast — 1 reader
- Cleveland Avenue — 1 reader
- 5th Avenue Northeast — 1 reader
- Forrest Avenue — 1 reader
- 4th Street Northwest — 1 reader
- Airport Road — 1 reader
- Pleasant Valley Road — 1 reader
Attalla AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Attalla AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 12 other agencies.
Attalla in the Etowah County picture
Etowah County has 57 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #439 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 20.5% nationally. That’s across 103,208 residents and 1,577 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 17.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic.
What’s watching Attalla
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 Attalla — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Attalla (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Attalla
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 Attalla
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).