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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pleasant Grove, Alabama

Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Pleasant Grove — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Pleasant Grove, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Pleasant Grove itself.

The rest sit in Birmingham (2).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#145
of 256 Alabama cities tracked
0.1%
of Alabama’s reported cameras
Live camera map 4 reported cameras around Pleasant Grove, Alabama
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Pleasant Grove

No new reports near Pleasant Grove in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 01:08 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Pleasant Grove

The readers mapped around Pleasant Grove break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Feb 2026.

  • Pleasant Grove Road — 3 readers
  • Ensley Pleasant Grove Road — 1 reader

Pleasant Grove AL PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Pleasant Grove AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 6 other agencies.

Pleasant Grove 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 1 traffic.

What’s watching Pleasant Grove

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 Pleasant Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Pleasant Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Pleasant Grove

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.

Cameras near Pleasant Grove

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).