Flock & ALPR Cameras in Safford, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 33 automated license plate readers in and around Safford — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 36 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Safford, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 29 of them sit inside Safford itself.
The rest sit in Thatcher (2).
5 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Safford in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:24 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Safford
The readers mapped around Safford break down as 36 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- South 8th Avenue — 5 readers
- Globe–Lordsburg Highway — 4 readers
- South 20th Avenue — 4 readers
- West Relation Street — 4 readers
- 14th Avenue — 3 readers
- West 8th Street — 3 readers
- West Thatcher Boulevard — 2 readers
- West El Paso Boulevard — 2 readers
- West 20th Street — 2 readers
- South 5th Avenue — 1 reader
- South 7th Avenue — 1 reader
- Safford-Springerville Highway — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Safford — all on the live map above.
Safford AZ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Safford AZ PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 4 other agencies.
Safford in the Graham County picture
Graham County has 45 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #78 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 3.6% nationally. That’s across 38,860 residents and 3,858 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 39.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 35 traffic.
What’s watching Safford
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 Safford — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Safford (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Safford
- In the minutes: Safford meeting, Flock Safety (Aug 10)
- Flock camera debate continues in Safford
- Safford council to revisit Flock camera issue tonight
- What the Flock is going on in Safford?
What you can do in Safford
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 Safford
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).