Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hoover, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 41 automated license plate readers in and around Hoover — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 41 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hoover, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 33 of them sit inside Hoover itself.
The rest sit in Vestavia Hills (5), Birmingham (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Hoover in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hoover
The readers mapped around Hoover break down as 20 Flock Safety, 19 Motorola Solutions, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Montgomery Highway — 6 readers
- John Hawkins Parkway — 6 readers
- Galleria Circle — 6 readers
- Old Rocky Ridge Road — 3 readers
- Lorna Road — 3 readers
- James W. Wilson Jr Parkway — 2 readers
- Rosemary Lane — 2 readers
- Columbiana Road — 1 reader
- Landing Lane — 1 reader
- Municipal Lane — 1 reader
- Carisbrooke Parkway — 1 reader
- Tyler Road — 1 reader
+ 8 more streets and roads mapped around Hoover — all on the live map above.
Hoover AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hoover AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 61 other agencies.
Hoover 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 15 traffic, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (2).
Camera activity around Hoover, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hoover. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching Hoover
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 Hoover — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hoover (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hoover
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Hoover, AL
- Hoover Forest Preserve to get license plate reader, camera
- City of Hoover set to get more flock cameras
What you can do in Hoover
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 Hoover
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).