Flock & ALPR Cameras in Oro Valley, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Oro Valley — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 10 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Oro Valley
The readers mapped around Oro Valley break down as 8 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Oro Valley Police Department, Home Depot, Oro Valley PD. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- North Oracle Road — 6 readers
- East Tangerine Road — 1 reader
- East Rancho Vistoso Boulevard — 1 reader
- West Overton Road — 1 reader
Oro Valley AZ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Oro Valley AZ PD runs 20 cameras of its own, has logged 234 plate-database searches, has captured 379,443 vehicle records. Its network connects to 72 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Apache Junction AZ PD, Arizona Department of Public Safety, ASU AZ PD, Avondale AZ PD, Benson AZ PD, Buckeye AZ PD, Casa Grande AZ PD, Cave Creek AZ Marshal's Office.
Oro Valley 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 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: Oro Valley Police Department (4), Home Depot (3), Oro Valley PD (1).
Camera activity around Oro Valley, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Oro Valley. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Oro Valley
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 Oro Valley — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Oro Valley (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Oro Valley
- Oro Valley police leasing controversial Flock Safety drones
- Oro Valley is buying new drones from policing technology firm Flock Safety
What you can do in Oro Valley
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.
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Cameras near Oro Valley
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).