Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fountain Hills, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Fountain Hills — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Fountain Hills, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Fountain Hills itself.
The rest sit in Scottsdale (3).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Scottsdale Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
4 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Fountain Hills
The readers mapped around Fountain Hills break down as 4 Reconyx, 2 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Scottsdale Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- East Shea Boulevard — 1 reader
- Beeline Highway — 1 reader
- East WeKoPa Way — 1 reader
- Surama Road — 1 reader
- East Mohave Road — 1 reader
- North Fort McDowell Road — 1 reader
- North Thompson Peak Parkway — 1 reader
Fountain Hills 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 6 traffic. Operators named on the record: Scottsdale Police Department (1).
What’s watching Fountain Hills
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 Fountain Hills — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fountain Hills (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Fountain Hills
- On the agenda: Fountain Hills Town Council Regular Session — Automated License Plate (Oct 6)
- Fountain Hills council member seeks to ban Sharia Law - Fountain Hills Times
- On the agenda: Fountain Hills Town Council Regular Session — LICENSE PLATE READER (Sep 15)
What you can do in Fountain Hills
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 Fountain Hills
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).