Flock & ALPR Cameras in Gilbert, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 66 automated license plate readers in and around Gilbert — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 66 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Gilbert, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 39 of them sit inside Gilbert itself.
The rest sit in Mesa (27).
7 of them name an operator in the record: Gilbert PD (4), The Home Depot (3). 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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No new reports near Gilbert in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Gilbert
The readers mapped around Gilbert break down as 67 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Gilbert PD, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Santan Village Parkway — 11 readers
- East Williams Field Road — 8 readers
- East Main Street — 6 readers
- South Power Road — 5 readers
- South Higley Road — 4 readers
- North Gilbert Road — 4 readers
- South Market Street — 3 readers
- West Warner Road — 3 readers
- South Val Vista Drive — 3 readers
- East Superstition Springs Boulevard — 3 readers
- East Hampton Avenue — 2 readers
- East Warner Road — 2 readers
+ 11 more streets and roads mapped around Gilbert — all on the live map above.
Gilbert AZ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Gilbert AZ PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 5 other agencies.
Gilbert 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 42 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Gilbert PD (4), The Home Depot (3).
Camera activity around Gilbert, last 30 days
3 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Gilbert. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Gilbert
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 Gilbert — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Gilbert (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Gilbert
What you can do in Gilbert
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 Gilbert
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).