Flock & ALPR Cameras in Tempe, Arizona
Volunteers have reported 36 automated license plate readers in and around Tempe — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Tempe is on the record here. Tempe announced August 26, 2026 that it turned off its Flock ALPR system, will end its contract with Flock, and will not seek a replacement vendor. AZFamily reported about 33 city cameras, that no new plate data is being collected, and that residents may still see hardware until Flock removes it. Mayor Corey Woods said the risk of misuse is too great. The city had already cut automatic Flock data sharing on August 10.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 36 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Tempe, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 16 of them sit inside Tempe itself.
The rest sit in Mesa (13), Scottsdale (3).
4 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (4). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
4 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 Tempe in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Tempe
The readers mapped around Tempe break down as 37 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions, 1 LiveView Technologies. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- North Scottsdale Road — 7 readers
- East McKellips Road — 3 readers
- West Main Street — 3 readers
- North Mesa Riverview Drive — 3 readers
- East Rio Salado Parkway — 3 readers
- East Wildermuth Drive — 2 readers
- South Rural Road — 2 readers
- South Dobson Road — 2 readers
- West Southern Avenue — 2 readers
- Tempe — 1 reader
- East Apache Boulevard — 1 reader
- North Hayden Road — 1 reader
+ 11 more streets and roads mapped around Tempe — all on the live map above.
Tempe AZ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Tempe AZ PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 5 other agencies.
Tempe 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 8 traffic, 1 street, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (4).
What’s watching Tempe
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 — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Tempe (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Tempe
- 5 license plate readers reported removed near Tempe, AZ
- Tempe approves multi-million dollar deal to consolidate police technology agreements amid privacy debate over license plate reader technology
- Tempe, Arizona announces it's having Flock cameras removed
- Arizona AG announces review of Flock Safety, other plate readers across the state
What you can do in Tempe
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 Tempe
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).