Flock & ALPR Cameras in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 52 automated license plate readers in and around Tuscaloosa — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 54 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Tuscaloosa, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 42 of them sit inside Tuscaloosa itself.
The rest sit in Coker (1).
11 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Tuscaloosa
The readers mapped around Tuscaloosa break down as 48 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make, 2 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Tuscaloosa — 6 readers
- Oscar Baxter Drive — 4 readers
- Patriot Parkway — 4 readers
- 13th Avenue East — 3 readers
- Skyland Boulevard East — 3 readers
- 13th Street East — 3 readers
- Tuscaloosa County — 3 readers
- Hackberry Lane — 2 readers
- AL 69 — 2 readers
- McFarland Boulevard East — 2 readers
- Stadium Drive — 1 reader
- County Road 95 — 1 reader
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Tuscaloosa — all on the live map above.
Tuscaloosa AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Tuscaloosa AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 45 other agencies.
Tuscaloosa in the Tuscaloosa County picture
Tuscaloosa County has 118 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #505 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 23.6% nationally. That’s across 234,036 residents and 3,033 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 46 traffic.
Camera activity around Tuscaloosa, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Tuscaloosa. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Tuscaloosa
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 Tuscaloosa — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Tuscaloosa (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Tuscaloosa
- Tuscaloosa Police & FBI Announce 90 Arrests in Monthlong Detail
- Residents voice alarm over surveillance cameras and data centers in Tuscaloosa County
- Community forum addresses Flock camera surveillance, data center concerns in Tuscaloosa
- Sheriff’s Office Investigating Destruction of Two Flock Cameras in Tuscaloosa County
What you can do in Tuscaloosa
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 Tuscaloosa
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).