Flock & ALPR Cameras in Midfield, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Midfield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Midfield, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Midfield itself.
The rest sit in Birmingham (7), Fairfield (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 2 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Midfield
The readers mapped around Midfield break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Oak Avenue Southwest — 1 reader
- Sj Bennett Drive — 1 reader
- 31st Street Southwest — 1 reader
- 29th Street Southwest — 1 reader
- 16th Street Southwest — 1 reader
- Milstead Road — 1 reader
- Spaulding Ishkooda Road — 1 reader
- Frankfurt Drive — 1 reader
Midfield AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Midfield AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 7 other agencies.
Midfield 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 3 traffic.
What’s watching Midfield
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 Midfield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Midfield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Midfield
What you can do in Midfield
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 Midfield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).