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Are there Flock cameras in Phenix City, Alabama?
Yep. Phenix City is flocked.
Are there Flock cameras in Phenix City, Alabama?
Yes. Public records in our database document Flock Safety automated license plate readers in Phenix City, Alabama recorded for Phenix City Police Department and Russell County Sheriff's Office. Separately, 19 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 19 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
- Agencies
- Phenix City Police Department and Russell County Sheriff's Office
- Vendor
- Flock Safety
- County
- Russell County
- Records on file
- 2
- Mapped cameras inside boundary
- 19
- Source-tagged Flock Safety
- 19
- Latest cited source
- 9/11/2025
- Database last updated
- 2026-08-07
What's on file
Agency
Phenix City Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Russell County
State
Alabama (AL)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
The Phenix City Police Department has used automated licesnse plate readers since at least 2018.
Sources · record AOS008713
- Ledger-Enquirer ↗04/03/2018
- Phenix City ↗06/16/2020
- Phenix City ↗02/01/2018
Agency
Russell County Sheriff's Office
Agency type
Sheriff
Jurisdiction
County
County
Russell County
State
Alabama (AL)
Vendor
Flock Safety
The Russell County Sheriff's Office operates 15 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 AOS017733
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
- Ledger-Enquirer ↗Phenix City Police Department · 04/03/2018 · record AOS008713
- Phenix City ↗Phenix City Police Department · 06/16/2020 · record AOS008713
- Phenix City ↗Phenix City Police Department · 02/01/2018 · record AOS008713
- Public Records From the EFF via Pittsboro Police - See note ↗Russell County Sheriff's Office · 9/11/2025 · record AOS017733
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
Community-mapped camera locations
19 mapped camera points inside the Phenix City 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.
- AlabasterVerified Flock
- AndalusiaVerified Flock
- AnnistonVerified Flock
- AshvilleVerified Flock
- AttallaVerified Flock
- AuburnALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- BessemerALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- BirminghamVerified 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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