Flock & ALPR Cameras in Irondale, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 76 automated license plate readers in and around Irondale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 76 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Irondale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Irondale itself.
The rest sit in Birmingham (66), Mountain Brook (1).
5 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (4), Mountain Brook Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 2 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Oct 2 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 29 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 29 Axis Communications camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Irondale
The readers mapped around Irondale break down as 42 Flock Safety, 14 Genetec, 5 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot, Mountain Brook Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- 1st Avenue North — 6 readers
- Birmingham — 4 readers
- I 59 — 4 readers
- Oporto Madrid Boulevard South — 4 readers
- 1st Avenue South — 3 readers
- I 20 — 3 readers
- Shades Terrace — 2 readers
- Grants Mill Road — 2 readers
- 66th Street South — 2 readers
- Joppa Avenue — 2 readers
- 67th Street South — 2 readers
- Roebuck Parkway — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Irondale — all on the live map above.
Irondale AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Irondale AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 47 other agencies.
Irondale 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 50 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (4), Mountain Brook Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Irondale, last 30 days
9 newly reported in our hourly change log for Irondale. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Irondale
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 Irondale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Irondale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Irondale
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Irondale, AL
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Irondale, AL
- 9 new license plate readers reported around Irondale, AL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Irondale, AL
What you can do in Irondale
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 Irondale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).