Flock & ALPR Cameras in Gardendale, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Gardendale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Gardendale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 20 of them sit inside Gardendale itself.
The rest sit in Fultondale (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Gardendale in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Gardendale
The readers mapped around Gardendale break down as 21 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Moncrief Road — 6 readers
- Fieldstown Road — 3 readers
- Odum Road — 3 readers
- North Road — 2 readers
- Mount Olive Boulevard — 1 reader
- Stouts Road — 1 reader
- Magnolia Ridge Drive — 1 reader
- Gowins Drive — 1 reader
- Decatur Highway — 1 reader
- Cluster Springs Road — 1 reader
- West Shugart Ridge Road — 1 reader
Gardendale AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Gardendale AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 47 other agencies.
Gardendale 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 Gardendale, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Gardendale. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Gardendale
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 Gardendale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Gardendale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Gardendale
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 Gardendale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).