Flock & ALPR Cameras in Tarrant, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Tarrant — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Tarrant, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Tarrant itself.
The rest sit in Birmingham (8).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 23 Axis Communications camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Tarrant
The readers mapped around Tarrant break down as 9 Flock Safety, 2 Neology, Inc., 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- East Lake Boulevard — 3 readers
- Erwin Dairy Road — 2 readers
- I 20;I 59 — 2 readers
- Messer Airport Highway — 1 reader
- Tarrant Huffman Road — 1 reader
- Murphree Road — 1 reader
- 14th Avenue North — 1 reader
- 3rd Avenue — 1 reader
Tarrant AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Tarrant AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 8 other agencies.
Tarrant 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 9 traffic.
What’s watching Tarrant
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 Tarrant — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Tarrant (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Tarrant
- Fact check: Where Tarrant County judge candidates stand on Flock cameras
- Flock cameras key to Tarrant County crime reduction, sheriff says as scrutiny mounts
What you can do in Tarrant
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 Tarrant
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).