Flock & ALPR Cameras in Central City, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Central City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Central City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Central City itself.
The rest sit in Phoenix (10).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Central City
The readers mapped around Central City break down as 8 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Thomas Road — 3 readers
- North 36th Street — 2 readers
- East Gateway Drive — 1 reader
- North 18th Street — 1 reader
- East McDowell Road — 1 reader
- East Taylor Street — 1 reader
Central City 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 9 traffic.
Camera activity around Central City, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Central City. Latest change logged Aug 16, 2026.
What’s watching Central City
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 Central City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Central City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Central City
What you can do in Central City
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 Central City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).