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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Vance, Alabama

Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Vance — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Vance, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Vance itself.

The rest sit in Tuscaloosa (10).

5 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

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

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19
Reported cameras nearby
#45
of 256 Alabama cities tracked
0.7%
of Alabama’s reported cameras
Live camera map 19 reported cameras around Vance, 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 Vance

No new reports near Vance in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Vance

The readers mapped around Vance break down as 17 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Mercedes Drive — 5 readers
  • M-Class Boulevard — 4 readers
  • Wallace Chapel Road — 2 readers
  • US 11 — 2 readers
  • Tuscaloosa — 2 readers
  • Vance-Blocton Road — 1 reader
  • Daimler Benz Boulevard — 1 reader
  • Tingle Tangle Road — 1 reader
  • Vance Road — 1 reader

Vance AL PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Vance AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 2 other agencies.

Vance 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 7 traffic.

Camera activity around Vance, last 30 days

1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Vance. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.

What’s watching Vance

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

The latest around Vance

What you can do in Vance

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 Vance

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