Flock & ALPR Cameras in Scottsdale, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 55 automated license plate readers in and around Scottsdale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Scottsdale
The readers mapped around Scottsdale break down as 54 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Scottsdale Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Camelback Road — 7 readers
- East McDowell Road — 5 readers
- North Scottsdale Road — 5 readers
- North Goldwater Boulevard — 4 readers
- East Indian School Road — 3 readers
- North Hayden Road — 3 readers
- East Fashion Square Drive — 3 readers
- East Highland Avenue — 2 readers
- East Via De Ventura — 2 readers
- East Thomas Road — 2 readers
- East Talking Stick Way — 2 readers
- East Hummingbird Lane — 2 readers
+ 12 more streets and roads mapped around Scottsdale — all on the live map above.
Scottsdale AZ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Scottsdale AZ PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 3 other agencies.
Scottsdale 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, 2 entrance. Operators named on the record: Scottsdale Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Scottsdale, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Scottsdale. Latest change logged Aug 15, 2026.
What’s watching Scottsdale
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 Scottsdale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Scottsdale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Scottsdale
- Scottsdale police explain Flock use, want to keep ALPR system
- Scottsdale City Council to vote on Flock cameras in December meeting
- Scottsdale keeps Flock cameras for now, will revisit topic later this year
- Scottsdale mayor calls for audit into police use of Flock cameras
What you can do in Scottsdale
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 Scottsdale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).