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Arizona

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

Are automated license plate readers used in Arizona?

Yes. Volunteers have recorded 2,245 automated license plate reader camera locations in Arizona, across 14 counties. That is a floor, not an inventory — it counts what someone has mapped, not what exists.

Camera data retrieved Aug 15, 2026 · Most recent record Aug 14, 2026

2,245 Camera coordinates 1.9% of the 118,623 we hold nationally. Community-reported, not field-verified by us.
14 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.
3 Documented decisions 2 ended, declined, or suspended · 1 adopted, renewed, or expanded.
3 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

2,245 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 Arizona. 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 1,918 85.4%
Motorola Solutions 149 6.6%
Unspecified 101 4.5%
Verkada 36 1.6%
Genetec 16 0.7%
Axon 10 0.4%
LiveView Technologies 8 0.4%
Leonardo/Elsag 3 0.1%
Axis Communications 3 0.1%
Rekor 1 0.0%

Where in Arizona

2,251 mapped cameras assigned to the county containing them. The 2 remaining counties with at least one mapped camera are in the open data.

  • Maricopa 1,162
  • Pima 332
  • Pinal 294
  • Yavapai 102
  • Coconino 74
  • Cochise 57
  • Yuma 51
  • Graham 45
  • Mohave 38
  • Navajo 30
  • Gila 24
  • La Paz 24

Jurisdiction dossiers

Program ended

Chandler

Chandler Police Department · 112 cameras mapped inside the boundary

Verified Aug 14, 2026 →
Declined to adopt

Pinal County

Pinal County Sheriff's Office · 301 cameras mapped inside the boundary

Verified Aug 14, 2026 →
Not established

Queen Creek

Queen Creek Police Department · 46 cameras mapped inside the boundary

Verified Aug 14, 2026 →

What governments here have decided

Every decision we hold for Arizona, most recent first. The Decision Record exists because deployment databases record arrivals and not reversals.

Jurisdiction Decision Date Vendor Sourcing
Chandler Ended Aug 7, 2026 Flock Safety Primary document
Pinal County Declined Aug 5, 2026 Flock Safety Reported
Tempe Adopted Jan 1, 2026 Flock Safety Reported

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Developments in Arizona.

2d ago Arizona ALPR Public backlash

Arizona man arrested after bending Flock camera pole amid growing ALPR backlash

A Pinal County resident said he used his work truck to bend a license-plate reader pole so the camera pointed at the sky. He was arrested and faces a felony criminal-damage charge — in a state where two agencies have just walked away from their ALPR contracts.

Reported

National developments that apply here

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

Documented harms and verification

Incidents

Verified Unsurveilled

No community in Arizona has been assessed against the standard yet. Compare yours.

What we don’t know about Arizona

34 open questions carried by records in this state. Each one is published rather than left blank, because an unresolved question a resident can answer is worth more than a page that looks finished.

  • The 2026 audit report and the specific anomaly it identified Chandler, AZ · public records request
  • The three prior years of audit reports that found nothing Chandler, AZ · public records request
  • The outcome of the internal investigation Chandler, AZ · public records request
  • Retention period applied during the program, and disposition of collected data after shutdown Chandler, AZ · public records request
  • Whether Chandler retains access to any regional, neighbouring, or vendor ALPR database providing equivalent capability Chandler, AZ · public records request
  • Whether any Chandler data shared with partner agencies before shutdown remains searchable by them Chandler, AZ · public records request
  • The Flock service agreement and its exact expiration date Pinal County, AZ · public records request
  • The precise camera count and the location of each unit, particularly the San Tan Valley subset Pinal County, AZ · public records request
  • Whether the Sheriff's Office intends to procure a replacement ALPR system from another vendor Pinal County, AZ · public records request
  • The data-sharing configuration and which outside agencies received Pinal County data Pinal County, AZ · public records request
  • Whether data already shared with partner agencies survives the contract's expiry Pinal County, AZ · public records request
  • Who operates the 41 mapped cameras that carry no operator tag (34 of them Flock) — the Town, Pinal County, a neighbouring agency, or private businesses? Queen Creek, AZ · public records request

Help close the gaps.

We hold records for 4 Arizona jurisdictions. There are far more than that. A single records request from a resident often establishes more than weeks of desk research.

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Places in Arizona

The largest 40 of 79 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.

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