Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pinson, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Pinson — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Pinson, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Pinson itself.
The rest sit in Gardendale (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Pinson in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:16 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Pinson
The readers mapped around Pinson break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Sep 2025.
- AL 75 — 4 readers
- School Drive — 1 reader
- Center Point Road — 1 reader
- AL 151 — 1 reader
- New Castle Road — 1 reader
Pinson AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Pinson AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 6 other agencies.
Pinson 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, 1 town.
What’s watching Pinson
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 Pinson — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Pinson (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Pinson
What you can do in Pinson
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 Pinson
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).