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Arizona · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Tempe Junction, Arizona

Volunteers have reported 43 automated license plate readers in and around Tempe Junction — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 43 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Tempe Junction, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Tempe Junction itself.

The rest sit in Tempe (41), Phoenix (1), Scottsdale (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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43
Reported cameras nearby
#18
of 142 Arizona cities tracked
1.6%
of Arizona’s reported cameras
Live camera map 43 reported cameras around Tempe Junction, Arizona
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Tempe Junction
+0 this week +1 last 30 days −5 removed
  • Sep 21 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Tempe Junction

The readers mapped around Tempe Junction break down as 42 Flock Safety, 2 Verkada, 2 Axon. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • South Mill Avenue — 10 readers
  • East Apache Boulevard — 3 readers
  • South McAllister Avenue — 3 readers
  • West University Drive — 2 readers
  • South 52nd Street — 2 readers
  • South College Avenue — 2 readers
  • East Veterans Way — 2 readers
  • Palm Walk — 2 readers
  • South Kyrene Road — 2 readers
  • South Priest Drive — 1 reader
  • East 13th Street — 1 reader
  • East University Drive — 1 reader

+ 16 more streets and roads mapped around Tempe Junction — all on the live map above.

Tempe Junction 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 26 traffic, 1 parking.

Camera activity around Tempe Junction, last 30 days

5 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Tempe Junction. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.

What’s watching Tempe Junction

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 Tempe Junction — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Tempe Junction (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Tempe Junction

What you can do in Tempe Junction

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.

Cameras near Tempe Junction

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).