Atlas · State

Alabama

What is documented about automated license plate surveillance in Alabama — and what is still an open question.

Are automated license plate readers used in Alabama?

Yes. Volunteers have recorded 2,512 automated license plate reader camera locations in Alabama, across 62 counties. That is a floor, not an inventory — it counts what someone has mapped, not what exists.

Camera data retrieved Aug 15, 2026 · No dated records held

2,512 Camera coordinates 2.1% of the 118,623 we hold nationally. Community-reported, not field-verified by us.
62 Counties with a mapped camera Assigned geometrically from Census county boundaries. A county with no entry has no mapped camera, which is not the same as none.
0 Documented decisions No government decision on record here yet.
0 Full dossiers Places researched down to retention, sharing, warrant standard, and audit policy — including the fields that come back unknown.

Known ALPR locations

Coverage incomplete

  • Camera coordinate
  • Jurisdiction record — no camera coordinates held
  • Program ended, declined, or prohibited

2,512 mapped camera coordinates · 42 jurisdiction records · 50 of 50 states have data. Camera coordinates © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Boundaries and roads: US Census, public domain. Roads are drawn for orientation only — a camera near a road is not a claim about which road it watches.

Pinned to Alabama. Open the national Atlas to compare with neighbouring states.

Who supplies the cameras

Vendor attribution as recorded by OpenStreetMap contributors. Where a contributor did not identify the vendor the record reads “Unspecified” — that is an unrecorded fact, not a vendorless camera.

Vendor Mapped cameras Share
Flock Safety 2,240 89.2%
Motorola Solutions 106 4.2%
Unspecified 52 2.1%
Genetec 36 1.4%
Axis Communications 23 0.9%
Neology 21 0.8%
Avigilon 18 0.7%
Rekor 12 0.5%
Leonardo/Elsag 4 0.2%

Where in Alabama

2,796 mapped cameras assigned to the county containing them. The 50 remaining counties with at least one mapped camera are in the open data.

  • Jefferson 629
  • Shelby 200
  • Muscogee 190
  • Madison 146
  • Tuscaloosa 142
  • Baldwin 127
  • Montgomery 122
  • Lee 102
  • St. Clair 95
  • Troup 89
  • Morgan 71
  • Houston 66

Signal

No Signal story yet names Alabama. That is a gap in our coverage rather than a quiet state — send us what you are seeing.

National developments that apply here

These are not about Alabama specifically. They govern the cameras in it.

What we don’t know about Alabama

We hold no researched record for Alabama deep enough to have produced open questions yet. That is the largest gap on this page.

We don’t know yet. Help us find out.

Unsurveilled holds no documented ALPR decision for any Alabama jurisdiction. That is a statement about our research capacity, not about Alabama.

Places in Alabama

The largest 40 of 86 places we can put on the map. Selecting one centres the map there. A place appearing here says nothing about whether it has cameras — it is a label, and the camera layer is separate and incomplete.