Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bessemer, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 29 automated license plate readers in and around Bessemer — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 29 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bessemer, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 21 of them sit inside Bessemer itself.
The rest sit in McCalla (5), Hueytown (2).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Axis Communications camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Bessemer
The readers mapped around Bessemer break down as 27 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions, 1 Axis Communications. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Bessemer — 4 readers
- 19th Street North — 3 readers
- Letson Farms Parkway — 3 readers
- 15th Street North — 2 readers
- John M. Harbert III Freeway — 2 readers
- Lou George Loop — 2 readers
- Murphys Lane — 1 reader
- 18th Street North — 1 reader
- Morgan Road — 1 reader
- Academy Lane — 1 reader
- 12th Avenue North — 1 reader
- Lakeshore Parkway — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Bessemer — all on the live map above.
Bessemer AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bessemer AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 45 other agencies.
Bessemer in the Jefferson County picture
Jefferson County has 505 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #217 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 10.1% nationally. That’s across 669,744 residents and 5,208 road miles. By road density that is 0.10 cameras per road mile, in the top 5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic.
Camera activity around Bessemer, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Bessemer. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Bessemer
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 Bessemer — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bessemer (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bessemer
What you can do in Bessemer
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.
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Cameras near Bessemer
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).