Flock & ALPR Cameras in El Mirage, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around El Mirage — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near El Mirage in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:17 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in El Mirage
The readers mapped around El Mirage break down as 14 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- West Thunderbird Road — 6 readers
- West Thompson Ranch Road — 2 readers
- North 129th Avenue — 2 readers
- North Dysart Road — 1 reader
- West Cactus Road — 1 reader
- West Acoma Drive — 1 reader
- North Primrose Street — 1 reader
- West Via Camille — 1 reader
- Northwest Grand Avenue — 1 reader
El Mirage AZ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, El Mirage AZ PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 7 other agencies.
El Mirage 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 14 traffic, 1 street.
What’s watching El Mirage
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 El Mirage — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to El Mirage (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around El Mirage
- 2 new license plate readers reported around El Mirage, AZ
- El Mirage Police has new gunshot detection system
What you can do in El Mirage
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 El Mirage
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).