Flock & ALPR Cameras in Catalina, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Catalina — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Catalina, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Catalina itself.
The rest sit in Oro Valley (2).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Catalina in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 08:01 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Catalina
The readers mapped around Catalina break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Feb 2026.
- East Saddlebrooke Boulevard — 2 readers
- North Oracle Road — 1 reader
- West Tortolita Mountain Circle — 1 reader
Catalina in the Pima County picture
Pima County has 297 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,071 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,049,947 residents and 11,783 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 24.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
What’s watching Catalina
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 Catalina — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Catalina (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Catalina
What you can do in Catalina
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 Catalina
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).