Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mesa, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 61 automated license plate readers in and around Mesa — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 19 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Mesa
The readers mapped around Mesa break down as 59 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- East Main Street — 6 readers
- East McKellips Road — 5 readers
- East Broadway Road — 5 readers
- South Country Club Drive — 4 readers
- North Country Club Drive — 4 readers
- East University Drive — 4 readers
- West Main Street — 3 readers
- East Southern Avenue — 3 readers
- West University Drive — 3 readers
- West Southern Avenue — 2 readers
- North Alma School Road — 2 readers
- North Gilbert Road — 2 readers
+ 11 more streets and roads mapped around Mesa — all on the live map above.
Mesa AZ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mesa AZ PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 4 other agencies.
Mesa 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 16 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Mesa, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Mesa. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Mesa
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 Mesa — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mesa (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mesa
What you can do in Mesa
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 Mesa
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).