Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Tucson, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 47 automated license plate readers in and around South Tucson — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
South Tucson is on the record here. The City of South Tucson, AZ canceled their contract with Flock Safety, removing the automated license plate reader cameras after months of debate over privacy and public safety.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 47 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Tucson, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside South Tucson itself.
The rest sit in Tucson (43).
23 of them name an operator in the record: Tucson Police Department (22), South Tucson PD (1). 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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- Sep 25 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 23 Axon Enterprise camera newly reported
- Sep 23 Axon Enterprise camera newly reported
- Sep 22 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in South Tucson
The readers mapped around South Tucson break down as 15 Verkada, 10 Flock Safety, 9 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Tucson Police Department, South Tucson PD. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- South 6th Avenue — 9 readers
- South Park Avenue — 6 readers
- East Broadway Boulevard — 2 readers
- South 12th Avenue — 2 readers
- North 4th Avenue — 2 readers
- West Ajo Way — 2 readers
- South 4th Avenue — 1 reader
- East 36th Street — 1 reader
- West Saint Mary's Road — 1 reader
- Tucson — 1 reader
- West Speedway Boulevard — 1 reader
- South Toole Avenue — 1 reader
+ 14 more streets and roads mapped around South Tucson — all on the live map above.
South Tucson AZ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, South Tucson AZ PD runs 10 cameras of its own. Its network connects to 6 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Oro Valley AZ PD, Pima County AZ SO, University of Arizona Campus AZ PD.
South Tucson 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 24 traffic, 16 street, 3 parking. Operators named on the record: Tucson Police Department (21), South Tucson PD (1).
Camera activity around South Tucson, last 30 days
10 newly reported, 4 removed in our hourly change log for South Tucson. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching South Tucson
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 South Tucson — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Tucson (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around South Tucson
- 2 new license plate readers reported around South Tucson, AZ
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near South Tucson, AZ
- 2 new license plate readers reported around South Tucson, AZ
- 2 new license plate readers reported around South Tucson, AZ
What you can do in South Tucson
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 South Tucson
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).