Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cahaba Heights, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 26 automated license plate readers in and around Cahaba Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 26 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cahaba Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Cahaba Heights itself.
The rest sit in Vestavia Hills (10), Birmingham (8), Mountain Brook (7).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Cahaba Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:31 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Cahaba Heights
The readers mapped around Cahaba Heights break down as 25 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Overton Road — 4 readers
- Cahaba River Road — 3 readers
- John M. Harbert III Freeway — 3 readers
- Liberty Parkway — 2 readers
- Green Valley Road — 2 readers
- Summit Boulevard — 2 readers
- Cherokee Road — 2 readers
- Magnolia Ridge — 2 readers
- Crosshaven Drive — 1 reader
- Greendale Road — 1 reader
- Urban Center Parkway — 1 reader
- Denyse Drive — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Cahaba Heights — all on the live map above.
Cahaba Heights 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 10 traffic.
Camera activity around Cahaba Heights, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Cahaba Heights. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching Cahaba Heights
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 Cahaba Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cahaba Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Cahaba Heights
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 Cahaba Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).