Flock & ALPR Cameras in Buckeye, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 68 automated license plate readers in and around Buckeye — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 70 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Buckeye, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 56 of them sit inside Buckeye itself.
The rest sit in Goodyear (4).
60 of them name an operator in the record: City of Buckeye (54), Lowe's (6). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
10 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Buckeye
The readers mapped around Buckeye break down as 57 Flock Safety, 12 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: City of Buckeye, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Watson Road — 12 readers
- West Yuma Road — 7 readers
- MC 85;US 80 Hist — 5 readers
- West Lower Buckeye Road — 4 readers
- South Miller Road — 4 readers
- West Southern Avenue — 4 readers
- South Apache Road — 3 readers
- Sundance Avenue — 3 readers
- North Watson Road — 2 readers
- West Broadway Road — 2 readers
- East Monroe Avenue — 2 readers
- South Verrado Way — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Buckeye — all on the live map above.
Buckeye AZ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Buckeye AZ PD has logged 340 plate-database searches. Its network connects to 8 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Buckeye 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 19 traffic. Operators named on the record: City of Buckeye (54), Lowe's (6).
Camera activity around Buckeye, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Buckeye. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Buckeye
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 Buckeye — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Buckeye (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Buckeye
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- 3 new license plate readers reported around Buckeye, AZ
- How many license plate readers are in Buckeye?
What you can do in Buckeye
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 Buckeye
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).