Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rainbow City, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Rainbow City — 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 Rainbow City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Rainbow City itself.
The rest sit in Gadsden (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Rainbow City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Rainbow City
The readers mapped around Rainbow City break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Rainbow Drive — 2 readers
- Black Creek Parkway — 2 readers
- Kaylu Drive — 1 reader
- East Grand Avenue — 1 reader
- West Grand Avenue — 1 reader
- Whorton Bend Road — 1 reader
Rainbow City AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Rainbow City AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 45 other agencies.
Rainbow City in the Etowah County picture
Etowah County has 57 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #439 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 20.5% nationally. That’s across 103,208 residents and 1,577 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 17.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
What’s watching Rainbow City
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 Rainbow City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rainbow City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Rainbow City
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 Rainbow City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).