Flock & ALPR Cameras in Southside, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Southside — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Southside, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Southside itself.
The rest sit in Rainbow City (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Southside in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Southside
The readers mapped around Southside break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- AL 77 — 2 readers
- Pilgrims Rest Road — 1 reader
- Cedar Bend Road North — 1 reader
- Matt Smith Road — 1 reader
- Riddles Bend Road — 1 reader
- Fowlers Ferry Road North — 1 reader
- US 411 — 1 reader
- Cedar Bend Road South — 1 reader
Southside AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Southside AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 50 other agencies.
Southside 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 9 traffic.
What’s watching Southside
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 Southside — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Southside (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Southside
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 Southside
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).