Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mountain Brook, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Mountain Brook — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mountain Brook, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 13 of them sit inside Mountain Brook itself.
The rest sit in Birmingham (5).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Mountain Brook in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Mountain Brook
The readers mapped around Mountain Brook break down as 18 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Montclair Road — 5 readers
- Memory Lane — 2 readers
- 21st Avenue South — 2 readers
- Mountain Brook Parkway — 1 reader
- Mountain Ridge Parkway — 1 reader
- Sims Avenue — 1 reader
- Hagood Street — 1 reader
- Watkins Road — 1 reader
- Country Club Road — 1 reader
- Montevallo Road — 1 reader
- Mountain Brook Park Drive — 1 reader
- Ross Drive — 1 reader
Mountain Brook AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mountain Brook AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 52 other agencies.
Mountain Brook 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 10 traffic.
What’s watching Mountain Brook
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 Mountain Brook — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mountain Brook (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mountain Brook
What you can do in Mountain Brook
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 Mountain Brook
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).