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Are there Flock cameras in Bessemer, Alabama?

Bessemer is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.

Are there Flock cameras in Bessemer, Alabama?

Our records document automated license plate reader use in Bessemer, Alabama recorded for Bessemer Police Department, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 18 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 18 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.

Agency
Bessemer Police Department
Vendor
Vigilant Solutions
County
Jefferson County
Records on file
1
Mapped cameras inside boundary
18
Source-tagged Flock Safety
18
Latest cited source
04/25/2014
Database last updated
2026-08-07
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What's on file

Agency

Bessemer Police Department

Agency type

Police

Jurisdiction

Municipal

County

Jefferson County

State

Alabama (AL)

Vendor

Vigilant Solutions

The Bessemer Police Department uses Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers, according to a 2014 press release

Sources · record AOS007542

What this record does not say

These entries document that an agency has been reported to use ALPR technology. They do not establish camera counts, exact locations, cost, retention periods or sharing policies unless the linked source says so.

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Sources & records

Everything on this page traces back to the records below. Where a record carries no linked document, we say so instead of filling the gap.

Documented deployment records

Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.

Community-mapped camera locations

18 mapped camera points inside the Bessemer boundary, from OpenStreetMap contributors via the DeFlock ↗ dataset (ODbL). Each point links to its own OpenStreetMap record in the camera list on this page.

Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.

Nearby documented deployments

Other Alabama communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.

All Alabama records →

Camera counts, contract prices, retention and sharing policies are shown only where we found a primary source. Where they're missing, the information is not publicly verified — see the Flock Files for the documents we do have.

Data attribution

Portions of the surveillance deployment data on this site come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org ↗ Are You Flocked? is independent and is not affiliated with the EFF or Flock Safety. Database last updated 2026-08-07.

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