Flock & ALPR Cameras in Gadsden, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Gadsden — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Gadsden, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 13 of them sit inside Gadsden itself.
The rest sit in Reece City (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Gadsden in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 01:07 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Gadsden
The readers mapped around Gadsden break down as 14 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- AL 759 — 2 readers
- George Wallace Drive — 2 readers
- Valley Drive — 1 reader
- Whorton Bend Road — 1 reader
- Piedmont Cutoff Highway — 1 reader
- Owls Hollow Road — 1 reader
- Tuscaloosa Avenue — 1 reader
- Noccalula Road — 1 reader
- Walnut Street — 1 reader
- Gorge Trail — 1 reader
- US 411 — 1 reader
- Lay Springs Road — 1 reader
AL - Gadsden PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, AL - Gadsden PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 33 other agencies.
Gadsden in the Etowah County picture
Etowah County has 57 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #439 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 20.5% nationally. That’s across 103,208 residents and 1,577 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 17.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic, 1 parking.
Camera activity around Gadsden, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for Gadsden. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Gadsden
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 Gadsden — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Gadsden (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Gadsden
- On the agenda: Gadsden meeting — facial recognition (Aug 4)
- Gadsden City Council OKs accord with Alabama Power for license plate recognition cameras
What you can do in Gadsden
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 Gadsden
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).