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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Drexel Heights, Arizona

Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Drexel Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Drexel Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Drexel Heights itself.

The rest sit in Tucson (14).

5 of them name an operator in the record: Tucson Police Department (5). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#51
of 142 Arizona cities tracked
0.5%
of Arizona’s reported cameras
Live camera map 14 reported cameras around Drexel Heights, Arizona
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Camera Watch Recently reported near Drexel Heights

No new reports near Drexel Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 12:37 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Drexel Heights

The readers mapped around Drexel Heights break down as 9 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions, 2 Verkada. Named operators in the reports: Tucson Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • West Valencia Road — 7 readers
  • Nogales–Tucson Highway — 2 readers
  • West Irvington Road — 2 readers
  • South Oak Tree Drive — 1 reader
  • South Nogales Highway — 1 reader
  • South 12th Avenue — 1 reader

Drexel Heights 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 13 street, 1 traffic. Operators named on the record: Tucson Police Department (5).

Camera activity around Drexel Heights, last 30 days

1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Drexel Heights. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.

What’s watching Drexel Heights

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 Drexel Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Drexel Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Drexel Heights

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.

Cameras near Drexel Heights

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).