Flock & ALPR Cameras in Surprise, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 33 automated license plate readers in and around Surprise — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Surprise is on the record here. Surprise, AZ terminated its Flock Safety contract covering 28 cameras. Cited reasons: Council cancel after temporary suspend; audit anomaly cited.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 33 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Surprise, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 29 of them sit inside Surprise itself.
The rest sit in El Mirage (2), Peoria (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 28 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Surprise
The readers mapped around Surprise break down as 30 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Greenway Road — 6 readers
- West Bell Road — 4 readers
- Towne Center Drive — 4 readers
- North 107th Avenue — 2 readers
- West Cottonwood Street — 2 readers
- North Reems Road — 1 reader
- Grand Avenue — 1 reader
- North Litchfield Road — 1 reader
- North El Mirage Road — 1 reader
- West Country Gables Drive — 1 reader
- Northwest Grand Avenue — 1 reader
- West Lundberg Street — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Surprise — all on the live map above.
Surprise AZ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Surprise AZ PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 3 other agencies.
Surprise 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 30 traffic, 1 parking_entrance, 1 parking.
Camera activity around Surprise, last 30 days
5 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for Surprise. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Surprise
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 Surprise — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Surprise (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Surprise
- On the agenda: Surprise Regular City Council Meeting — automated license plate (Sep 15)
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Surprise, AZ
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Surprise, AZ
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Surprise, AZ
What you can do in Surprise
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 Surprise
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).