Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sun City, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 37 automated license plate readers in and around Sun City — 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 Sun City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Sun City itself.
The rest sit in Peoria (25), Glendale (9).
2 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 Sun City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Sun City
The readers mapped around Sun City break down as 36 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Bell Road — 7 readers
- North 83rd Avenue — 5 readers
- North 91st Avenue — 4 readers
- West Olive Avenue — 3 readers
- West Thunderbird Road — 2 readers
- New River Trail — 2 readers
- North 75th Avenue — 2 readers
- West Cactus Road — 2 readers
- West Beardsley Road — 2 readers
- West Peoria Avenue — 2 readers
- West Union Hills Drive — 1 reader
- West Morrow Drive — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Sun City — all on the live map above.
Sun City 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 33 traffic.
Camera activity around Sun City, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Sun City. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Sun City
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 Sun City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sun City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sun City
- 12 new license plate readers reported around Sun City West, AZ
- Flagstaff City Council votes to cancel Flock Safety camera contract
- Flagstaff City Council votes to end use of contentious Flock license plate cameras
- Flagstaff City Council attempts to find middle ground in use of Flock surveillance cameras
What you can do in Sun City
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 Sun City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).