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As of 13 October 2026, 3,062 Flock and ALPR cameras are mapped inside Arizona's borders (2,539 tagged Flock Safety), run by 104 operators. The densest cluster is Phoenix, at 1,271 mapped cameras. See every camera on the live map below, which way it faces and its approximate capture zone. Free, no account.
Arizona records 3,062 mapped plate readers across 104 operators. Tucson Police Department runs the largest share at 8%, ahead of Chandler Police Department on 109. Every count on this page is measured inside the state line, so it's a floor for the state — not an estimate stitched together from overlapping city boxes. 733 of the 3,062 cameras carry no operator at all, so the operator shares above are shares of the attributed cameras. Since 5 October 2026 the in-state count moved from 3,039 to 3,062 (+23).
Open the live camera mapMapped ALPR cameras around Arizona's largest cities, as of 13 October 2026.
1,271 cameras
Scottsdale
1,123 cameras
Chandler
951 cameras
Mesa
937 cameras
493 cameras
Flagstaff
61 cameras
Phoenix, Tucson have full pages with operator, vendor and direction breakdowns; the other metros are covered by the live map. These are bounding-box reads around each city, useful for comparing metros but not for adding together — boxes overlap and spill across state lines. The headline figure is counted inside the border and is the honest state total.
The lead agency runs 8%; here is the rest of the top eight.
Tucson Police Department
246 cameras
Chandler Police Department
109 cameras
Mesa Police Department
102 cameras
Scottsdale Police Department
100 cameras
Casa Grande Police Department
96 cameras
Peoria Police Department
91 cameras
Tempe Police Department
90 cameras
Phoenix Police Department
86 cameras
The top of the Arizona table is Tucson Police Department at 246. What matters for anyone reading the map is how long the tail is — 104 operators in total, so most cameras belong to agencies that individually run only a handful. Private businesses appear too: of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 37 are privately operated.
Where the map has no operator tag, the operator is inferred from the surrounding jurisdiction; that applies to 1,868 of 3,062 cameras in Arizona. Treat names as likely, not certain.
Manufacturers recorded on the map, and how many cameras carry a facing direction.
Flock Safety
2,539 cameras
Motorola Solutions
235 cameras
Verkada
76 cameras
Genetec
32 cameras
Axon Enterprise
26 cameras
'Flock camera' is shorthand here, not the whole story: 87% of vendor-tagged cameras in Arizona are Flock Safety, and Motorola Solutions accounts for 235. 118 cameras are unattributed to any vendor.
The map knows which way 88% of Arizona's cameras face (2,681 of 3,062). Mounts, where recorded: pole (403), street lamp (145), wall (7), ceiling (4).
Records-based sources document 39 agencies running plate readers in Arizona, against 104 operators visible on the map. Where the Atlas has a documented program and the map has few cameras, the cameras are likely there and simply not yet mapped.
Navajo County Sheriff's Office has been using automatic license plate readers since 2013.
In September 2017, the Quartzsite Police Department purchased a police car equipped with an automated license plate reader with funds from the Arizona Automobile Theft Authority.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety shares its automated license plate reader data with more than 250 agencies. Vendor: Vigilant Solutions.
The Chandler Police Department has Automated License Plate Readers installed on five patrol vehicles with the goal of having one vehicle per shift per substation patrolling the streets with an active ALPR. Vendor: PIPS, Vigilant Solutions.
The Phoenix Police Department uses Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers. Vendor: Vigilant Solutions.
The Glendale Police Department uses Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers. Vendor: Vigilant Solutions.
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.
As of 13 October 2026, 3,062 Flock and ALPR cameras are mapped inside Arizona's borders, 2,539 of them tagged Flock Safety, run by 104 operators. The largest clusters are around Phoenix, Scottsdale, Chandler. That is a documented floor, not a full inventory: cameras appear as people map them.
The largest clusters are around Phoenix (1,271), Scottsdale (1,123), Chandler (951), Mesa (937), Tucson (493), Flagstaff (61). Smaller AZ towns appear on the live map too — these are simply the biggest metro areas.
Mostly municipal police and county sheriffs — 104 separate operators, led by Tucson Police Department (246). Private operators account for 37 of the cameras that carry an operator type.
No. Flock Safety is tagged on 2,539 of 2,934 vendor-recorded cameras (87%); Motorola Solutions accounts for 235, and 118 cameras have no vendor recorded at all. 'Flock camera' is the common name, but the map covers every ALPR it can find.
BanditKin's navigation offers opt-in, field-of-view-aware camera avoidance with a strength slider, using the 2,681 Arizona cameras that have a recorded facing direction. If no camera-free route exists it says so and falls back to the normal route. Preferring not to be logged by a commercial surveillance network is a privacy preference — the app uses public camera-location data.