Flock & ALPR Cameras in Birmingham, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 128 automated license plate readers in and around Birmingham — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Axis Communications camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Birmingham
The readers mapped around Birmingham break down as 99 Flock Safety, 12 Genetec, 2 Neology, Inc.. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- University Boulevard — 8 readers
- I 20;I 59 — 5 readers
- 10th Avenue North — 5 readers
- I 65 — 4 readers
- 7th Avenue South — 3 readers
- Center Street North — 3 readers
- 3rd Avenue North — 3 readers
- 28th Street South — 3 readers
- 10th Avenue South — 3 readers
- Red Mountain Expressway — 3 readers
- 11th Avenue North — 3 readers
- 24th Street South — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Birmingham — all on the live map above.
Birmingham AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Birmingham AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 12 other agencies.
Birmingham 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 73 traffic.
Camera activity around Birmingham, last 30 days
24 newly reported, 4 removed in our hourly change log for Birmingham. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Birmingham
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 Birmingham — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Birmingham (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Birmingham
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Birmingham, AL
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Birmingham, AL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Birmingham, AL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Birmingham, AL
What you can do in Birmingham
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 Birmingham
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).