Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fairfield, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Fairfield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Fairfield, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Fairfield itself.
The rest sit in Birmingham (13).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 26 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Fairfield
The readers mapped around Fairfield break down as 11 Flock Safety, 2 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Kelco Place — 2 readers
- 17th Street Southwest — 2 readers
- 20th Street Ensley — 2 readers
- Avenue F — 2 readers
- 9th Court — 1 reader
- 40th Street — 1 reader
- 57th Street — 1 reader
- E.J. Oliver Boulevard — 1 reader
- Avenue W — 1 reader
Fairfield AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Fairfield AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 6 other agencies.
Fairfield 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 13 traffic.
Camera activity around Fairfield, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Fairfield. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Fairfield
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 Fairfield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fairfield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Fairfield
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Fairfield, AL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Fairfield, AL
What you can do in Fairfield
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 Fairfield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).