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License-plate readers · Yavapai County

Yavapai County

Using license-plate readers · 6 agencies documented

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Chino Valley Police Department

Status
Using license-plate readers
Vendors
Flock Safety
  1. Jan. 29, 2026 The Daily Courier reported that Chino Valley police, along with Prescott and Prescott Valley police, use Flock Safety plate readers in their jurisdictions. (The Daily Courier (Prescott), Jan. 29, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Only a news mention found; no contract or council record located. Event date is the article date because no event date was given.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Cottonwood Police Department

Status
Use suspended
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
11
11 ALPRs in Cottonwood, per a Larson Newspapers photo caption on its Sept. 3, 2026 Prescott audit-log story.
  1. Sept. 4, 2026 The city and police department suspended Flock plate-reader use effective immediately after talks between the city manager and police chief; Flock was notified and readers were deactivated pending a council decision. (JournalAZ / Larson Newspapers, Sept. 4, 2026; ABC15, Sept. 4, 2026)
  2. Sept. 22, 2026 A council work session on the plate readers was scheduled for this date. (JournalAZ / Larson Newspapers, Sept. 4, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Outcome of the Sept. 22, 2026 work session not found; status may have changed since.
  • Larson's 'CPD shuts off and bags Flock' story (Sept. 18, 2026) could not be opened.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Prescott Police Department

Status
Using license-plate readers
Vendors
Flock Safety
  1. Jan. 27, 2026 At a Prescott City Council study session, Police Chief Amy Bonney and Flock Safety public affairs director Trevor Chandler presented on plate readers. Bonney said Prescott PD shares data only with Arizona law enforcement; Chandler said the department keeps the data 30 days. (The Daily Courier (Prescott), Jan. 29, 2026)
  2. June 30, 2026 Network audit logs released to Larson Newspapers showed 3,830,002 searches of the Prescott PD Flock network by 594 agencies from Jan. 1 to June 30, 2026; the department's own log showed 8,778 searches. (JournalAZ / Larson Newspapers, Sept. 3, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Search-count figures come from audit logs obtained by Larson Newspapers under a public-records request; the end date of the period (June 30, 2026) is used as the event date.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Prescott Valley Police Department

Status
Using license-plate readers
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
100
"100 LPR and other cameras" on the department's Flock transparency portal, last updated Sept. 22, 2025.
  1. Jan. 2024 Prescott Valley police said they would begin installing plate-reading cameras in January 2024, supported by state homeland security and emergency management grants and the Rocky Mountain Information Network. (SignalsAZ (Talking Glass Media podcast via Buzzsprout), Jan. 18, 2024)
  2. Sept. 22, 2025 The department's Flock transparency portal listed 100 plate-reader and other cameras, 30-day retention and immigration enforcement as a prohibited use. (Flock Safety / Prescott Valley Police Department, Sept. 22, 2025)
  3. Jan. 22, 2026 In a Jan. 22 interview with The Daily Courier, Prescott Valley Police Chief Bob Tiber and Assistant Chief Jeremy Martin said the department shares Flock data only for criminal investigations and will not provide it for civil immigration cases. (The Daily Courier (Prescott), Jan. 29, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Portal lists 30-day retention, 314 searches and 289,021 vehicles detected in the prior 30 days, and immigration enforcement among prohibited uses (as of Sept. 22, 2025).
  • The Jan. 2024 install date is month-only (announcement said installs would begin in January 2024).

From agency records.

Sedona Police Department

Status
Ended or removed
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
11
11 Flock cameras installed in summer 2025, per KNAU (Aug. 19 and Sept. 11, 2025); police said the program never began operating.
  1. June 2025 Sedona installed 11 Flock cameras around June 2025. (KNAU Arizona Public Radio, Aug. 19, 2025)
  2. Aug. 13, 2025 City Council directed police to turn off the plate-reader program and asked for a citizen work group and a possible pilot proposal. (City of Sedona, Sept. 17, 2025)
  3. Sept. 9, 2025 City Council voted unanimously to cancel the Flock contract; the city said the cameras would be removed. (City of Sedona, Sept. 17, 2025; KNAU Arizona Public Radio, Sept. 11, 2025)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Install month is approximate (KNAU said cameras went up about two months before Aug. 19, 2025).
  • Camera removal was announced as forthcoming; removal itself not confirmed in sources opened.

From agency records.

Yavapai County Sheriff's Office

Status
Using license-plate readers
Vendors
Motorola Solutions
Cameras
6
Six patrol cars carrying mobile ALPR, per Sheriff David Rhodes at the Aug. 19, 2026 board meeting as reported by Larson Newspapers; YCSO has no stationary Flock cameras.
Contract
Motorola Solutions: $71,381 total · Larson Newspapers reports YCSO accepted this amount in July 2023 for four Vigilant Solutions ALPRs for drug and human-trafficking interdiction. A separate Larson story says the Board of Supervisors approved $74,620 for YCSO mobile plate readers on June 7, 2023; the two figures may describe the same purchase and are reported as stated. (JournalAZ / Larson Newspapers, Aug. 13, 2026)
Contract
Vendor not named in source: $74,620 total · from June 7, 2023 · approved by Yavapai County Board of Supervisors · Mobile plate readers for YCSO; vendor not named in the source. (JournalAZ / Larson Newspapers, Aug. 27, 2026)
  1. June 7, 2023 County supervisors approved $74,620 for sheriff's office mobile plate readers, according to later Larson Newspapers reporting. (JournalAZ / Larson Newspapers, Aug. 27, 2026)
  2. Aug. 19, 2026 The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors unanimously denied two sheriff's office consent items: $39,348 for three Ekin Patrol G2 mobile plate-reader units and a $13,847 LeadsOnline NightHawk subscription. Sheriff Rhodes said he had six ALPR-equipped cars and wanted nine, and was not seeking fixed readers. (JournalAZ / Larson Newspapers, Aug. 27, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Sheriff Rhodes said deputies may use other agencies' Flock networks with a stated reason and, where available, a case number (Larson Newspapers, Aug. 27, 2026).
  • The board's denial covered only the proposed expansion; the existing six mobile units are not reported to have been removed.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Statewide

  1. Feb. 2025 DPS's Local Border Support grant program has paid for local plate-reader cameras in Sierra Vista. The council accepted a $115,472.89 DPS grant in late February 2025 that covered installing 16 plate-reader cameras and running them for a year, plus a drone and a police dog. A later DPS grant of $311,574.35, approved on an unstated date, included $107,200 for two more years of Flock plate-reader monitoring. (Sierra Vista Herald (Herald/Review Media), March 4, 2025; City of Sierra Vista, date not shown)
  2. Jan. 2026 Sen. Kevin Payne (R-Peoria) introduced SB 1111 in the 2026 session to set rules for police use of automated license plate readers. As introduced it limited use to criminal investigations and law-enforcement purposes, barred non-law-enforcement uses, made captured plate data exempt from public records requests, and was backed by the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police and the Arizona Police Association. (KJZZ, Jan. 14, 2026; Arizona Mirror, Jan. 14, 2026)
  3. Jan. 2026 Sen. Mark Finchem introduced SB 1138, which would have required plate-reader data to be stored on an agency-controlled server not maintained by a third party, deleted after 90 days unless needed as evidence, exempted from public review, and accessed only with a criminal case number; unauthorized release by a third party would be a class 1 misdemeanor with a fine of at least $500 per item. A Senate fact sheet was prepared Jan. 23, 2026; no committee vote was found. (Arizona State Legislature, Jan. 2026; Arizona State Senate, Jan. 23, 2026)
  4. Feb. 2026 The Arizona Mirror reported that the Arizona Department of Transportation asked U.S. Customs and Border Protection to stop hiding its roadside plate readers in orange traffic cones, and that CBP was moving the cameras into yellow barrels made to look like crash cushions. The same report said Arizona had no law governing how police use plate readers. (Arizona Mirror, with The Border Chronicle, Feb. 19, 2026)
  5. Feb. 10, 2026 The Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology Committee advanced SB 1111, 7-2-1, after adopting a strike-everything amendment from Sen. Finchem that added definitions, permitted uses, training, audit-log and annual-audit requirements, and kept plate data exempt from public records. (Arizona State Senate, Feb. 6, 2026; Arizona Mirror, Feb. 10, 2026; Arizona's Family (republished by KOLD), Sept. 8, 2026)
  6. March 4, 2026 On the Senate floor, senators rejected Sen. Jake Hoffman's amendment that would have limited plate readers to detecting government vehicles on government property, and adopted Sen. Payne's amendment requiring a warrant or a subpoena from a city attorney, county attorney or the attorney general to query plate-reader data (the engrossed text applies this to access more than 48 hours after police are notified of an incident, with listed exceptions). The engrossed bill also made willful misuse of plate-reader data a class 6 felony. The bill received preliminary approval but never got a final third-reading vote, so it died in the Senate. (Arizona Mirror, March 4, 2026; Arizona State Legislature, March 2026; Arizona's Family (republished by KOLD), Sept. 8, 2026)
  7. Aug. 27, 2026 Attorney General Kris Mayes announced a statewide review of Flock Safety and other plate-reader systems: which agencies use them, who can reach the data (including federal and out-of-state agencies) and Fourth Amendment questions, with a report to the Legislature and the Governor's Office before the next session. "We need a statewide approach to this issue," she said. (Arizona's Family, Aug. 27, 2026; KNAU Arizona Public Radio, Aug. 27, 2026)
  8. Aug. 27, 2026 Sen. Jake Hoffman (R) and Sen. Lauren Kuby (D) said they are preparing plate-reader legislation for the 2027 session; Hoffman's office said it is drafting several bills, with ideas including warrant requirements for stored data, limits on access and storage, and a statewide ban or strict limits. (FOX 10 Phoenix, Aug. 27, 2026)

State agencies

Arizona Department of Public Safety

Status
Using license-plate readers
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
Count not documented
No DPS camera count found. Sources show DPS searching plate-reader data, not how many readers DPS itself operates.
  1. July 8, 2019 An Arizona Mirror review of records covering Feb. 2018 to March 2019 reported that DPS kept plate-reader data for one year, shared detection data with more than 250 agencies and received it from 185. (Arizona Mirror, July 8, 2019)
  2. Aug. 14, 2026 In a Flock network search audit covering July 14 to Aug. 14, 2026, obtained by Arizona's Family from Avondale police, DPS ran the most searches of any agency listed, more than 8,500. (Arizona's Family, Sept. 2, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Operates statewide; headquartered in Phoenix.
  • Flock is listed because DPS appears as a searching agency in a Flock network audit; whether DPS owns or leases its own Flock cameras was not established.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.