Flock & ALPR Cameras in Anthem, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Anthem — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Anthem, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Anthem itself.
The rest sit in Phoenix (5), Peoria (3).
1 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Anthem
The readers mapped around Anthem break down as 13 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North North Valley Parkway — 4 readers
- North Capra Way — 4 readers
- West Spirit Drive — 3 readers
- West Harbor Boulevard — 2 readers
- North Lake Pleasant Parkway — 1 reader
Anthem in the Maricopa County picture
Maricopa County has 1,098 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,203 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 4,491,987 residents and 21,641 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic.
Camera activity around Anthem, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Anthem. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Anthem
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Anthem — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Anthem (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Anthem
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Anthem, AZ
- 5 new license plate readers reported around Anthem, AZ
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Anthem, AZ
What you can do in Anthem
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Anthem
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).