Flock & ALPR Cameras in San Carlos, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around San Carlos — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of San Carlos, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside San Carlos itself.
The rest sit in Chandler (11), Mesa (5), Gilbert (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near San Carlos in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in San Carlos
The readers mapped around San Carlos break down as 13 Flock Safety, 5 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Arizona Avenue — 3 readers
- West Juanita Avenue — 2 readers
- West Warner Road — 2 readers
- South Islands Drive West — 2 readers
- South Alma School Road — 1 reader
- South Country Club Drive — 1 reader
- West Iron Avenue — 1 reader
- North Dobson Road — 1 reader
- West Palomino Drive — 1 reader
- North Alma School Road — 1 reader
- North McClintock Drive — 1 reader
- West Knox Road — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around San Carlos — all on the live map above.
San Carlos 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 13 traffic.
What’s watching San Carlos
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 San Carlos — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to San Carlos (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around San Carlos
- 2 new license plate readers reported around San Carlos, AZ
- 3 new license plate readers reported around San Carlos, AZ
What you can do in San Carlos
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 San Carlos
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).