Flock & ALPR Cameras in Paradise Valley, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 104 automated license plate readers in and around Paradise Valley — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 103 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Paradise Valley, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 29 of them sit inside Paradise Valley itself.
The rest sit in Scottsdale (56), Phoenix (18).
18 of them name an operator in the record: Scottsdale Police Department (7), The Home Depot (6), Lowe's (3), The Vanguard Group (2). 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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- Oct 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Paradise Valley
The readers mapped around Paradise Valley break down as 78 Flock Safety, 11 Motorola Solutions, 11 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Scottsdale Police Department, The Home Depot, Lowe's, The Vanguard Group. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- North Northsight Boulevard — 6 readers
- North Tatum Boulevard — 6 readers
- East Lincoln Drive — 6 readers
- East Shea Boulevard — 5 readers
- East Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard — 5 readers
- North Scottsdale Road — 5 readers
- East Bell Road — 5 readers
- North Hayden Road — 4 readers
- East Cactus Road — 3 readers
- North Invergordon Road — 3 readers
- North 90th Street — 3 readers
- North Mockingbird Lane — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Paradise Valley — all on the live map above.
Paradise Valley AZ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Paradise Valley AZ PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 50 other agencies.
Paradise Valley 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 38 traffic, 3 parking, 1 entrance. Operators named on the record: Scottsdale Police Department (7), The Home Depot (6), Lowe's (3).
Camera activity around Paradise Valley, last 30 days
10 newly reported in our hourly change log for Paradise Valley. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Paradise 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 Paradise Valley — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Paradise Valley (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Paradise Valley
- Paradise Valley police chief defends use of ALPR cameras
- On the agenda: Paradise Valley Town Council — automated license plate (Sep 10)
- 8 new license plate readers reported around Paradise Valley, AZ
- Paradise Valley automated license plate reader cameras remain in use amid privacy concerns
What you can do in Paradise 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.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Paradise Valley
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).