Flock & ALPR Cameras in Apache Junction, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 58 automated license plate readers in and around Apache Junction — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 58 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Apache Junction, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 34 of them sit inside Apache Junction itself.
The rest sit in Mesa (16).
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.
8 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 6, 2026 On the agenda: Apache Junction City Council Meeting — License Plate Reader (Oct 6)
- Oct 5, 2026 On the agenda: Apache Junction City Council Work Session — automated license plate (Oct 5)
- Sep 15, 2026 On the agenda: Apache Junction City Council Meeting — automated license plate (Sep 15)
- Sep 14, 2026 On the agenda: Apache Junction City Council Work Session — automated license plate (Sep 14)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Apache Junction
The readers mapped around Apache Junction break down as 53 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- South Ellsworth Road — 4 readers
- West Apache Trail — 3 readers
- South Tomahawk Road — 3 readers
- South Signal Butte Road — 3 readers
- South Ironwood Drive — 2 readers
- East Southern Avenue — 2 readers
- East Hampton Avenue — 2 readers
- South Crismon Road — 2 readers
- South Meridian Drive — 2 readers
- South Idaho Road — 2 readers
- West Baseline Avenue — 2 readers
- East Brown Road — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Apache Junction — all on the live map above.
Apache Junction AZ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Apache Junction AZ PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 8 other agencies.
Apache Junction in the Pinal County picture
Pinal County has 324 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #244 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 11.4% nationally. That’s across 449,219 residents and 8,894 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 17% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 51 traffic, 1 residential. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Apache Junction, last 30 days
7 newly reported in our hourly change log for Apache Junction. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Apache Junction
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 Apache Junction — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Apache Junction (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Apache Junction
- On the agenda: Apache Junction City Council Meeting — License Plate Reader (Oct 6)
- On the agenda: Apache Junction City Council Work Session — automated license plate (Oct 5)
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Apache Junction, AZ
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Apache Junction, AZ
What you can do in Apache Junction
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 Apache Junction
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).