Flock & ALPR Cameras in Carefree, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Carefree — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Carefree, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Carefree itself.
The rest sit in Scottsdale (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Carefree
The readers mapped around Carefree break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- East Cave Creek Road — 3 readers
- North Tom Darlington Drive — 1 reader
- East Los Gatos Drive — 1 reader
- North Scottsdale Road — 1 reader
Carefree 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 1 traffic.
Camera activity around Carefree, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Carefree. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching Carefree
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 Carefree — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Carefree (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Carefree
What you can do in Carefree
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.
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Cameras near Carefree
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).