Flock & ALPR Cameras in Forestdale, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Forestdale — 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 Forestdale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Forestdale itself.
The rest sit in Birmingham (6), Adamsville (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Forestdale in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Forestdale
The readers mapped around Forestdale break down as 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Dugan Avenue — 2 readers
- Cherry Avenue — 2 readers
- Hackworth Road — 2 readers
- Daniel Payne Drive — 1 reader
- Foust Court — 1 reader
- Forestdale Boulevard — 1 reader
- Bankhead Highway West — 1 reader
Forestdale 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 Forestdale, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Forestdale. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching Forestdale
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 Forestdale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Forestdale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Forestdale
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 Forestdale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).