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Are there Flock cameras in Birmingham, Alabama?
Yep. Birmingham is flocked.
Are there Flock cameras in Birmingham, Alabama?
Yes. Public records in our database document Flock Safety automated license plate readers in Birmingham, Alabama recorded for Birmingham Police Department, Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, University Of Alabama Birmingham Police Department and Tarrant Police Department. Separately, 220 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 183 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
- Agencies
- Birmingham Police Department, Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, University Of Alabama Birmingham Police Department and Tarrant Police Department
- Vendor
- Flock Safety
- County
- Jefferson County
- Records on file
- 4
- Mapped cameras inside boundary
- 220
- Source-tagged Flock Safety
- 183
- Latest cited source
- 9/9/2020
- Database last updated
- 2026-08-07
What's on file
Agency
Birmingham Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Jefferson County
State
Alabama (AL)
Vendor
Flock Safety
The Birmingham Police Department began installing Flock Safety automated license plate readers in 2018 and expanded the program in 2020.
Verified deployment detail
No primary sources on file yet
Cameras / readers
Not publicly verified
Contract price
Not publicly verified
Contract start
Not publicly verified
Contract end
Not publicly verified
Data retention
Not publicly verified
Data sharing documented
Not publicly verified
Date approved
Not publicly verified
ALPR policy
Not publicly verified
Contract / public record
Not publicly verified
Flock transparency portal
Not publicly verified
Every value above is transcribed from the linked document. Nothing is estimated or inferred, and claims circulating on social media are never published here. “Not publicly verified” means we have not found a reliable primary or reported source — never that the thing does not exist.
Sources · record AOS008006
- CBS 42 ↗9/9/2020
- Trussville Tribune ↗9/15/2020
- ABC 33-40 ↗9/9/2020
Agency
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
Agency type
Sheriff
Jurisdiction
County
County
Jefferson County
State
Alabama (AL)
Vendor
Flock Safety
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Verified deployment detail
No primary sources on file yet
Cameras / readers
Not publicly verified
Contract price
Not publicly verified
Contract start
Not publicly verified
Contract end
Not publicly verified
Data retention
Not publicly verified
Data sharing documented
Not publicly verified
Date approved
Not publicly verified
ALPR policy
Not publicly verified
Contract / public record
Not publicly verified
Flock transparency portal
Not publicly verified
Every value above is transcribed from the linked document. Nothing is estimated or inferred, and claims circulating on social media are never published here. “Not publicly verified” means we have not found a reliable primary or reported source — never that the thing does not exist.
Sources · record AOS008009
- 6WBRC ↗08/06/2020
- Patch ↗08/05/2020
- Trussville Tribune ↗04/30/2020
Agency
University Of Alabama Birmingham Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
University
County
Jefferson County
State
Alabama (AL)
Vendor
Flock Safety
The University Of Alabama Birmingham Police Department operates 16 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Verified deployment detail
No primary sources on file yet
Cameras / readers
Not publicly verified
Contract price
Not publicly verified
Contract start
Not publicly verified
Contract end
Not publicly verified
Data retention
Not publicly verified
Data sharing documented
Not publicly verified
Date approved
Not publicly verified
ALPR policy
Not publicly verified
Contract / public record
Not publicly verified
Flock transparency portal
Not publicly verified
Every value above is transcribed from the linked document. Nothing is estimated or inferred, and claims circulating on social media are never published here. “Not publicly verified” means we have not found a reliable primary or reported source — never that the thing does not exist.
Sources · record AOS017788
Agency
Tarrant Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Jefferson County
State
Alabama (AL)
Vendor
Flock Safety
The Tarrant Police Department operates six Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Verified deployment detail
No primary sources on file yet
Cameras / readers
Not publicly verified
Contract price
Not publicly verified
Contract start
Not publicly verified
Contract end
Not publicly verified
Data retention
Not publicly verified
Data sharing documented
Not publicly verified
Date approved
Not publicly verified
ALPR policy
Not publicly verified
Contract / public record
Not publicly verified
Flock transparency portal
Not publicly verified
Every value above is transcribed from the linked document. Nothing is estimated or inferred, and claims circulating on social media are never published here. “Not publicly verified” means we have not found a reliable primary or reported source — never that the thing does not exist.
Sources · record AOS017794
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
- CBS 42 ↗Birmingham Police Department · 9/9/2020 · record AOS008006
- Trussville Tribune ↗Birmingham Police Department · 9/15/2020 · record AOS008006
- ABC 33-40 ↗Birmingham Police Department · 9/9/2020 · record AOS008006
- 6WBRC ↗Jefferson County Sheriff's Office · 08/06/2020 · record AOS008009
- Patch ↗Jefferson County Sheriff's Office · 08/05/2020 · record AOS008009
- Trussville Tribune ↗Jefferson County Sheriff's Office · 04/30/2020 · record AOS008009
- Public Records From the EFF via Pittsboro Police - See note ↗University Of Alabama Birmingham Police Department · 9/11/2025 · record AOS017788
- Public Records From the EFF via Pittsboro Police - See note ↗Tarrant Police Department · 9/11/2025 · record AOS017794
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
Community-mapped camera locations
220 mapped camera points inside the Birmingham 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.
- BessemerALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- BrightonVerified Flock
- FairfieldVerified Flock
- FultondaleVerified Flock
- GardendaleVerified Flock
- HomewoodVerified Flock
- HooverALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- HueytownVerified Flock
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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