Automated license plate reading cameras blanket Arizona: Here's where they are concentrated
The short version: ABC15 Arizona maps the state's ALPR sprawl, confirming what we've been tracking: Flock cameras are multiplying faster than any public debate about them.
Our Take
Credit to ABC15 Arizona for putting numbers to what a lot of Arizonans have probably already noticed: cameras on poles at intersections, HOA entrances, and stretches of road that never used to have them. More than 132,000 fixed-location ALPRs nationwide, per the crowdsourced data they cite, is not a niche surveillance experiment anymore. It's infrastructure, and it got built with almost no public vote on whether it should exist.
The pattern in Arizona mirrors what we see everywhere Flock and similar vendors operate: deployment concentrates wherever a city council or police chief signs a contract, with little coordination, little public hearing, and even less scrutiny of who gets access to the data trail these cameras create on every driver, guilty or not. 'Concentration' is the right word — these networks aren't random, they're deliberate chokepoints designed to log your movements whether or not you're suspected of anything.
If you're in Arizona or anywhere else, check our map to see what's been documented near you, and if you want to push back on a deployment in your town, our take-action page has concrete steps for showing up at the council meeting that actually matters.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of ABC15 Arizona, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.