Flock & ALPR Cameras in Gulf Shores, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 51 automated license plate readers in and around Gulf Shores — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 53 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Gulf Shores, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 48 of them sit inside Gulf Shores itself.
The rest sit in Orange Beach (2).
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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In the minutes: Gulf Shores meeting, flock camera (Oct 12)
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- Oct 3 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 3 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 3 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Gulf Shores
The readers mapped around Gulf Shores break down as 44 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make, 2 Axis Communications. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West 22nd Avenue — 7 readers
- West 2nd Street — 5 readers
- West Beach Boulevard — 4 readers
- East Beach Boulevard — 3 readers
- Gulf Shores — 2 readers
- Clubhouse Drive — 2 readers
- East 15th Avenue — 2 readers
- Oak Road East — 2 readers
- Gulf Shores Parkway — 2 readers
- Beach Club Trail — 2 readers
- Perdido Beach Boulevard — 2 readers
- Coyote Crossing Trail — 2 readers
+ 11 more streets and roads mapped around Gulf Shores — all on the live map above.
Gulf Shores AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Gulf Shores AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 19 other agencies.
Gulf Shores in the Baldwin County picture
Baldwin County has 97 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #715 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 239,945 residents and 3,627 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 23.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 47 traffic, 3 police.
Camera activity around Gulf Shores, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Gulf Shores. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Gulf Shores
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 Gulf Shores — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Gulf Shores (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Gulf Shores
- In the minutes: Gulf Shores meeting, flock camera (Oct 12)
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Gulf Shores, AL
- Gulf Shores Police to launch Flock camera transparency portal in coming weeks
- In the minutes: Gulf Shores meeting, flock camera (Aug 24)
What you can do in Gulf Shores
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 Gulf Shores
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).