Flock & ALPR Cameras in Vestavia Hills, Alabama
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Vestavia Hills — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Vestavia Hills, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Vestavia Hills itself.
The rest sit in Homewood (7), Birmingham (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Vestavia Hills in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 03:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Vestavia Hills
The readers mapped around Vestavia Hills break down as 16 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Shades Crest Road — 2 readers
- Wildwood Parkway — 2 readers
- Green Springs Highway — 2 readers
- Montgomery Highway — 1 reader
- Rocky Ridge Road — 1 reader
- Ashley Woods — 1 reader
- Wildwood Circle North — 1 reader
- State Farm Parkway — 1 reader
- West Lakeshore Parkway — 1 reader
- Altadena Road — 1 reader
- Rosemont Drive — 1 reader
- Miller Hill Drive — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Vestavia Hills — all on the live map above.
Vestavia Hills AL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Vestavia Hills AL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 137 other agencies.
Vestavia Hills 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 10 traffic.
What’s watching Vestavia Hills
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 Vestavia Hills — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Vestavia Hills (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Vestavia Hills
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 Vestavia Hills
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).